Did you like the hunger games books?

[Clueless Morgan]

I've read them all, but, especially now that I've seen the second movie, I'm getting more inclined to think the movies were an improvement on the books.

Me, too.

I saw the first movie before I read the books and thought it was good enough to read the books. So I did. And they were just okay. I happen to think that the movies are way better and Jennifer Lawrence has made Katniss into a character I can actually like. (I really don't like her in the books.) I have issues with the books that are probably entirely a stylistic preference on my part, but there are certainly plot issues that I hated, especially in the third book.

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Generally speaking, I wasn't a huge fan of Katniss's character in the books. I found her very distant and I kept being hugely confused (both in the movie but especially in the book) at how she would keep saying she's not likable or good at making friends and yet every single person she seems to meet loves her.

As for the third book, I can appreciate that the author was portraying PTSD in her main character, which, as far as I can figure, was meant to be a commentary on how Harry Potter seems to glide through all of his problems without such psychological troubles, but it got seriously old in the third book. I also really hated how Katniss was used in the third book: she would go to a district, be told to give a rousing speech which she claims to be unable to do, then miraculously gives the world's best, most inspirational speech, the people fall under attack or something, Katniss gets knocked unconscious and wakes up days later in the hospital. Repeat six times. Or at least that what the third book felt like when I read it.

I'm hoping the third (and fourth?) movies continue the trend of being better than the books.

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