Hunger Games being banned?

[canuck]

People just like to control other people too much.

I often wonder how awesome some books could have been if the author wasn't afraid of offending certain audiences.

Anyways, the most sexually explicit things in the Hunger Games trilogy are kisses. Lol.

I think that it wasn't the sexual content that might have been a problem - it was young people killing other young people, that would be my take on it anyway.

 

[Alix]

Canuck, the blurb I read indicated that violence was only part of the reason folks wanted to ban it. The other reasons cited included sexually explicit scenes. I'll see if I can find a link to that.

 

[canuck]

Hi Alix: I only read the review of the film and it was just the gladiator like setting that I found unsettling - don't remember reading anything about anything sexually explicit, maybe then it was just in the book, which I haven't read.

 

[Blindsided]

I was just commenting based on the topic starters post. They said that they heard it was getting banned for "violence" and "sexually explicit" content.

I just mentioned it because I read the books, and all they do is kiss.

 

[Alix]

Hi Alix: I only read the review of the film and it was just the gladiator like setting that I found unsettling - don't remember reading anything about anything sexually explicit, maybe then it was just in the book, which I haven't read.

I've only read the book, not seen the movie and I didn't read anything explicit either.

I was just commenting based on the topic starters post. They said that they heard it was getting banned for "violence" and "sexually explicit" content.

I just mentioned it because I read the books, and all they do is kiss.

I'm the topic starter, and I agree with you. I didn't see anything remotely explicit.

 

[Peder]

I'm the topic starter, and I agree with you. I didn't see anything remotely explicit.

Me either. But having said that, I am also not motivated to read the remaining 2 volumes. So someone else will have to see what they have, or not. I'm listening, all ears.

 

[Alix]

Me either. But having said that, I am also not motivated to read the remaining 2 volumes. So someone else will have to see what they have, or not. I'm listening, all ears.

Read them all. PG 13 all the way.

 

[readsalot]

Stick with the first one only. That's by far the best. It sort of felt like the others were just because the first did well and they were like "shoot, we need a sequel"

 

[LiteraryAddict]

I feel like it's an ongoing witch hunt. Whether it's Hunger Games, Harry Potter, or Catcher in the Rye.

Though I do have to say, someone told me recently that she had her children read the Hunger Games so they would "be thankful for what they have and not complain so much". Is that what you guys got from the book? Because that is not even close to what I took away from the novels!!

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[abecedarian]

I feel like it's an ongoing witch hunt. Whether it's Hunger Games, Harry Potter, or Catcher in the Rye.

Though I do have to say, someone told me recently that she had her children read the Hunger Games so they would "be thankful for what they have and not complain so much". Is that what you guys got from the book? Because that is not even close to what I took away from the novels!!

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For that, I would hand Angela's Ashes to my middle or high school aged kids..

 

[Peder]

I feel like it's an ongoing witch hunt. Whether it's Hunger Games, Harry Potter, or Catcher in the Rye.

I'm not sure it is "ongoing" or "witch hunt" in the sense of organized, or same old people all the time. Different people will be irritated by different things and the US does have a large population from which someone almost always will be irritated. I'd be surprised if there weren't.

 

[dude]

I wasn't sure whether or not to read the books but now I've decided. I need to check if they're available at the library.

And this is exactly the response this sort of thing incites. It does exactly the opposite of what the protesters want. Now more people than ever will be reading and buying her books. "Thanks for the free promotion!" :lol:

Tell people they can't have something and they'll want it. Put a warning label on something and it sparks curiosity.

I'm curious, who puts the "young adult" tag on books anyway? Is it the publisher or the bookstore? How do books like these fall into that category anyway? If there's graphic violence and killing for sport, I don't imagine Collins was particularly aiming at a certain age range. Is it the reading difficultly or "level"?

 

[beer good]

I'm curious, who puts the "young adult" tag on books anyway? Is it the publisher or the bookstore? How do books like these fall into that category anyway? If there's graphic violence and killing for sport, I don't imagine Collins was particularly aiming at a certain age range. Is it the reading difficultly or "level"?

The publisher, of course. Very few bookshops have time to read and categorize books by themselves.

Young-adult fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[readsalot]

Libraries are a bit odd about how they categorize books too...sometimes books by the same author from the same series end up in two different areas....fiction and mystery or children's and YA.