Fiction

getting old in mke

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8. I liked the first one a lot

Sat Mar 24, 2012, 05:00 PM

Mar 2012

others I haven't read yet. Latter half of my 50s, if that counts as old .

Generic plot without details is certain fairly common in speculative fiction: Oppressive society of 1%-ers controlling everything. Protagonist, put in impossible situation, tries to use the very tools of the oppressors to subvert them.

Of course that fits everything from Lois Lowry's _The Giver_ to L. Ron Hubbard's _Battlefield Earth_ to Ayn Rand's _Anthem_.

In Collins case, it's clear sometimes that she was writing with a cinematic vision. I'll go see the movie on Monday night, probably, to see how directly it translated.

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The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins [View all] fadedrose Mar 2012 OP

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