I loved the Hunger Games Trilogy, and I’m a 52-year-old woman. My husband really liked reading them too, and he doesn’t normally read YA. I’m kind of glad I’m less sophisticated than many readers on this subreddit because I am able to enjoy many books that are looked on with disdain. I was working in a middle school library at the time when the Hunger Games came out. Many of my reluctant readers actually enjoyed it. We chose it as our first book for a newly formed Book Club. Both the boys and girls enjoyed it. It was our most popular selection in that particular book club.

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I don't know about consumer protection, but I have noticed something similar in commercial books, mostly fiction in terms of "readability." The print seems lighter - more dark gray than black - the type is smaller as if they're trying to save on paper, and sometimes the paper quality is thinner.

My simple system:

5 stars: a friend wrote this book

No rating: everything else

I am listening to the books for the first time (because i am learning a language and my skills aren't good enough yet to tackle the stuff that i actually like), but i have to say i disagree with you.

It's a good concept, but these are not well written books with good character development (so far. I am on book 3). It feels like such a missed opportunity. Their could have been details about the various districts, that the author could have delved more into like how the media was used to keep District 1 citizens insulated/oblivious or just downright apathetic. There could have been more of a history between Peeta and Katniss. Not romantic, just history since they lived so close by, there could have been more details regarding when and why the districts were made, and how bloody the wars were which lead to people becoming resigned to the Hunger Games.

There could have been so much more to make this a more layered novel series, but it feels almost lazy to me. The author had a great idea but a thoroughly indifferent execution. The writing is beyond meh.

It is one of those rare series where the movies are actually better, in my opinion.

I think Hunger Games deserved to become popular due to its idea, but it also deserves the criticism based on its literary merit, or the lack thereof.

I vaguely remember that, thank you.

Why isn't the FBI doing something against this hate groups? Too busy infiltrating anti-wall street organisations?

Yes, Lanier had chronic health problems - I think she died around '14. I did hear that her books had been optioned for a series and then stalled out which is a shame because that's a series I'd watch.

I can read a book every couple of days OR I could write my personal memoirs through Goodreads reviews

Repeatedly misspelling the same words the same way is used in forensics analysis. For instance innocence is repeatedly misspelled "innonence".

https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvxmbk/forensic-linguists-use-spelling-mistakes-to-help-convict-criminals

Right wing terrorists act out the rhetoric of the party.

The Talisman and Dark House a very closely tied to the Dark Tower series. If you haven't read The Dark Tower books, I highly recommend them :)

Quite a few.

As I was finishing high school, I was gifted a book by a prominent politician in my country that promoted climate-change denial. I actually believed it for a while.

However, as I got out of that, my late stepfather went down an esoteric and far-right rabbit hole. I looked into what he read to be able to critically engage with him. There was fake-historian punditry, edgy eugenics, Russian mysticism and for example trash fantasy that has a cult around it (a bit like scientology).

solutions to problems in scared people's heads that are fake and not real.

Why give it a rating when you can write an extremely long review?

I’m curious; how many actively harmful to society books have you read?

"Recovering Catholic" ? If you dont mind, what does that mean?

i rate a good portion = 1 stars...its books i hated or couldn't get into

some might be even considered great but i just couldn't get into them

5 is exclusive for absolute fav books or masterpieces or just very well written or very enjoyable

i am not usually generous with scores .. cause I am more like an amature critic ..so 3 stars is my most given i think

however I do find a problem in deciding many times..so i don't

You know you can insult homophobes without insulting people with disabilities.

Signed someone who didn’t have enough brain cells to finish high school ✌️

The second book is kind of disjointed in that it's largely a prequel and jumps around but it's where you get the history of the Silos, how and why they came to be, and sets up the 3rd book where it all comes together.

5 stars: all my love and I will make everyone I know read this book.

4 stars: loved it but few minor things took away from the experience such as predictability and writing style. Would recommend.

3 stars: meh. Good read, liked it well enough. Would probably not read again but will continue the series if part of one. Would probably recommend.

2 stars: finished it. Didn’t like it. Would ‘t recommend. Usually some redeeming factor but not enough.

1 star: hated it. Rated exactly one book this badly and it was for school so not very common rating. Usually some combination of bad plot, writing, and characters. W

1 star- hated it, no redeeming qualities 2 star- it was meh 3 star- liked it fine 4 star- loved it 5 star- blew me away

This is so fucking insane and yet so normal. Cultures and societies are not static. They evolve and there are always people who are fearful of change. These guys are no different than those who were screaming at 6-year old Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school in the south and paving the way for Civil Rights action in the American South.

Every time I despair about these people and their hateful actions, I am reminded of the images of those who were screaming at that little girl and their ugliness. Ruby won and the future Rubys will win. I just hope we didn't have to deal with a version of these hateful lunatics every decade.

I read mostly non-fiction, and I don't really read for "fun" (though it may get bonus points) but out of interest. My rating scale is a range from "incoherent garbage or actively harmful to society" to "sound seminal work, you should know about this".

Even when I read fiction, I apply similar criteria to an extent. For instance when I read Laurent Binet's Civilizations, I enjoyed about 3/4 of the story and I'd give it 4/5 rating, if it weren't for the alternative history based off fundamentally flawed premises; thus, it ends up 3/5 and I explain the problem with its pop "big history" framing and how the world building leaves out for example crucial trade relations with the other part of the world.

I always tend to rate books higher right after finishing them, then sometimes i get back and downgrade them later on haha.

5* is I am obsessed, I love everything about that book. Love how it makes me feel, love the message, the characters, the writing style, will probably reread some day.

4* when I really enjoyed the book but there was something missing, maybe it had some boring parts in it or was dragging on for too long

3* often means I’m not quite sure what to think about the book. I liked parts and at the same time I disliked other parts a lot. It was okay. Not more, not less.

2* is usually when I was glad when I finally got through a book. Books I didn’t like at all but pushed through and sometimes was even close to give up on reading it.

1* - I think it happened only once but was a DNF at like 50% that i hated and literally made me mad.