User blog:Mrdaimion/Why I Hate The Hunger Games

Hello, wiki. As many of you are aware, there's a famous series out right now called "The Hunger Games", and as a lot of you also know, The Hunger Games is one of my least favorite book series of all time. After many people sent death threats politely raged at asked me why I hated the series so much, I finally decided to make a blog post about it. Without further ado, I present: "Why I Hate The Hunger Games".

Reason One: The book's a rip-off of The Running Man. How so, you asked? Well, there's a reality show which the main character willingly signs up for a reality show that involves killing (both people trying to kill them and them trying to kill people) where there's a huge reward if you win (Hunger Games gives you unlimited food, Running Man gives you one billion dollars) for their family's sake (Katniss signed up so Rue wouldn't have to, Richards so that he'd have enough money to support his family) in an acopolypse like future where there's almost no money... Must I continue? Really? Fine: Although there's probably a million more glaring simularities between the two, since I've never actually read The Running Man, the only other one I can say is that in the end the host of the reality show ends up lying to the contestant about who lives (Katniss about the district partner, Richards about his family), and so they both rebel against it.

Reason Two: The characters in it are all awful. This is something that even you Hunger Games fans have to agree with me on (to a point), the only characters that I actually liked were Finnick, Cinna (that was the designers name, right?), and Gale. Every other character was pretty much emotionless (Katniss, Katniss, and Katniss), a plot tool (Peeta [Gale can also be considered one, I suppose, but he was still way better then Peeta]), or annoying (Katniss, Rue, Peeta, and pretty much everyone else aside from the characters I liked).

Reason Three: Suzanne Collins (the author) over-describes everything to the point where it's boring. I mean, writing like her is incredibly easy ("the young, ragged looking boy's fingers rappidly typed the keyboard, the clacking sound lingering in the air, as the stubble around his mouth slowly extended into a sheepish smile"), but the thing is, it's boring to read. There's a fine line between making your readers feel like they're inside the book and boring them to death.

Reason Four: Katniss and Peeta. Oh my God, I hated this couple, it made no sense. I'll try to keep this brief since I don't want to spend the entire blog ranting about it, but in short, the entire relationship revolves around the fact that Peeta has an implied murder fetish, fell in love with Katniss after one, maybe two months when they were trying to kill each other (hence the murder fetish), and that he fell in love with her again in three weaks after thinking that she murdered his family and tried to murder her (murder fetish, much?). KatnissxGale wasn't much better, but Hell, that actually made sense.

Reason Five: Mockingjay. Ju- just Mockingjay. It was a terrible book, with rushed deaths (for example, I didn't even know Finnick died the first time I read the book until I talked to my friends about it), a stupid plot line, and Suzanne's usual boring writing style. Must I explain why I hated this further? (To it's credit, though, it had the only death in the book that was sad for me [Rue's]).

I'd go on and on about why I hate the series, but I don't want to take up too much space here- plus, it would be hard to length out all the reasons of why I hate THG. But yeah, this is why I hate the series THG fan-boys/girls, you can kill me now.