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The Hunger Games Audio

The Hunger Games Audio 1

by Suzanne Collins and Carolyn McCormick
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/10/2008
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Reality TV meets Lord of the Flies. Every year, twelve boys and twelve girls are chosen to take part in the Hunger Games. Watched by the entire nation, this is action-packed reality TV at its most exciting - and most dangerous. Katniss Everdeen has grown up struggling to save the people close to her. Now she faces the biggest challenge of all - the fight for her life. Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. As close to a perfect adventure novel as I've ever read. - Rick Riordan, best-selling author of The 39 Clues and the Percy Jackson series.
ISBN:
9780545091022
9780545091022
Category:
Sound story
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-10-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scholastic US
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
152x130x30mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Suzanne Collins

Since 1991, Suzanne Collins has been busy writing for children's television. She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! Most recently she was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainments Clifford's Puppy Days, and a freelancer on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met childrens author James Proimos, who talked her into giving children's books a try.

Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. In New York City, you're much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you're not going to find a tea party. What you might find...? Well, that's the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part fantasy/war series, The Underland Chronicles.

Her next series, The Hunger Games Trilogy, is an international bestseller.

At present, Suzanne is at work on a picture book with James Proimos. She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and a pair of feral kittens they adopted from their backyard.

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First of all, the book was absolutely fabulous! The story was original and tragically beautiful, rich with detail and fascinating characters.

On a darker note, this audio book version was a let down. The reading and acting abilities of the narrator did not match the quality of this book. Her interpretation of the character voices was severely lacking, and the mispronunciation of some words was distracting and annoying.

This made the overall experience of the audio book version very 2dimensional, and made it difficult to engage fully in the story.

The narrator can make or break an audio book, and this case the audio book was bludgeoned to death. Ironic since the book is about a fight to the death!

I will definitely be actually reading the rest of the trilogy myself, instead of staying with the audio versions.

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