{"id":1772,"date":"2012-03-07T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2012-03-07T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:00:04","slug":"book-log-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Book Log – The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n

So, I discovered the Lending Library of Amazon. There’s over 100,000 titles you can just read for free with a Kindle and a Prime membership. You can borrow one at a time, once a month.<\/p>\n

I haven’t figured out how to return it though. I expect that will be made clear at some point. Maybe it just disappears off the Kindle.<\/p>\n

But I hadn’t found a book to read, until I was thumbing my wish list and noticed The Hunger Games<\/em>. I’m usually skeptical of bestsellers, because of what I’m calling the “Clive Cussler Syndrome”, which is when authors put out a lot of really crappy books that just get magnetized to the NYT Bestseller list for an unknown reason.<\/p>\n

I’m willing to accept that the crappiness may<\/em> just be my perception. But only just.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I figured I should check it out before the movie comes out. There were enough raves of The Hunger Games<\/em> from people I actually know that I took a chance. A small chance, since… it’s free.<\/p>\n

It’s a good book. Well crafted, not sentimental, not overly dramatic… just right. It draws you in and there’s no real good point to take a break and stop reading. <\/p>\n

I just watched the trailer for the movie. I don’t know how it’ll fly… there’s a lot of inner thought going on that may just not translate to the screen.<\/p>\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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