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Post by mizbizsav on Dec 27, 2011 17:59:02 GMT -5
It seems that there are so many stories behind how people came to discover this amazing series and I would love to hear everyone's here! If you haven't yet read it, post how you first heard of it! My Story: I first heard about "The Hunger Games" back in early 2009 when its popularity first sky-rocketed. This was just when the movie rights were given to Lionsgate and the sequel, "Catching Fire", was coming out in just a couple of months. My friends and my English teacher chatted about the book constantly, and while my interest was piqued, I didn't really know much about the story. Fast-forward one year later and I'm sitting in class while my teacher proudly holds up her copy of "Mockingjay"-- the day it was released, of course. I heard more about the story from my peers around me and my curiosity and need for the book was at its highest! Finally, when I was on vacation for New Year's, I came across the first book at a cheap price in Walmart... and bought it... and then devoured it... My friend let me borrow her copies of "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay" and I was in love. I'm glad that I read it at the time that I did because I was on board just in time to be in the middle of all of the fun casting news. In a couple of days, I will have been on "The Hunger Games" train for a year, and wow, what a wild ride it has been! I can't wait to see what 2012 has to offer for our amazing fandom. Can't wait to read everyone's stories! It'd be pretty cool to see how much more interest the series has received since the release of the trailer. (which you should totally check out, nonreaders!). P.S. I hope that this thread is okay. This is my first time creating a thread on here.
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Post by Flo Odair-Zabini-Jackson on Dec 27, 2011 18:02:44 GMT -5
My friend was reading it, and during class one time i took it out of her bag and started reading it. I got halfway through before the teacher confistacted the book XD
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Post by mizbizsav on Dec 27, 2011 18:20:13 GMT -5
My friend was reading it, and during class one time i took it out of her bag and started reading it. I got halfway through before the teacher confistacted the book XD And I bet your teacher was sitting at his/her desk reading it as well? *wink, wink* Halfway... not bad.
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Post by Flo Odair-Zabini-Jackson on Dec 27, 2011 18:36:20 GMT -5
I just realised i wrote confisticated. ohwell, you know what I mean.
My english teacher's really funny with the hunger games. We had to do a whole stack of essays for some credits, and she kept bringing in the hunger games and telling us to write our essay's on it XD I was like, 'of course miss!'
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Post by mizbizsav on Dec 27, 2011 18:43:41 GMT -5
I just realised i wrote confisticated. ohwell, you know what I mean. My english teacher's really funny with the hunger games. We had to do a whole stack of essays for some credits, and she kept bringing in the hunger games and telling us to write our essay's on it XD I was like, 'of course miss!' Lucky!!! Ever since I became obsessed with The Hunger Games, NO ONE (and I mean absolutely no one) mentions it at school. No teachers, no students. I will have English next semester and I HOPE that it is mentioned at least once. I mean, seriously! My sister, who is in fourth grade, gets a mention of The Hunger Games about once a week. (Her teacher had read The Hunger Games for her book club and word got out that I had the second book. I loaned it to her teacher and now she talks to my sister about it all. of. the. time). 86 more days to get it right, teachers!!!
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Post by Flo Odair-Zabini-Jackson on Dec 27, 2011 18:48:35 GMT -5
That is SO ANNOYING! Maybe you should really sneakily leave a copy on their desk, with a note saying 'read or die!' on it.
I am so happy that my friends are in the same fandoms as me. I hate HATE that feeling when you can't talk to anyone about books or TV shows. Forums are helpful, but it's just not the same
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Post by katnisstristhalia on Dec 27, 2011 19:11:53 GMT -5
Back in early summer of 2009, I had just rediscovered the Scholastic website, and found their book blog, on which they posted a lot about The Hunger Games. I felt like I simply had to read it, so I put a hold on it at my library, read it in one and a half days, and instantly got hooked. I waited about 3 months for Catching Fire to come out, and a whole year for Mockingjay. Fast-forward to 2011, where I have been obsessively tracking the progress of the movie and nearly everyone I know has read it. Which is simultaneously good and weird.
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Post by finnicklover on Dec 27, 2011 19:13:43 GMT -5
I was just walking through my average book store around either December 2008 or January 2009 I cannot remember :S And then I picked it up and said Mum...Your getting me this or else! She read the back and squealed a sound that sounded like EW.
Tsk tsp she didn't know what she was missing out on!
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Post by froy on Dec 27, 2011 20:30:47 GMT -5
My teacher read it to us for literature class when the school year was almost over and it was pointless to begin another unit. I will forever owe her. We never got to finish it as a class, so I stole it from her desk and finished and re-read it the whole summer. I tried to give it back to her the next year, but she had already bought another copy, so I just kept the one I stole and gave her the money. I regret nothing.
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Zatheyll
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Post by Zatheyll on Dec 27, 2011 20:34:54 GMT -5
I am the type that when I enter a book store I can stay there an entire day and not even realize it. I look at every book, sometimes sitting down and sampling them until I realize it is time to head home.
This is the way I found out about The Hunger Games. I had never heard of it before, not from friends, relatives, or even online. The second book was due to come out soon and I just picked it up from the shelf and started reading the first chapter.
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Post by RandomWeirdness on Dec 28, 2011 5:45:32 GMT -5
Saw it on a bookshelf at school. Yeah, that's pretty much all there is to it. I was the first out of my friends to read it, I read it last winter.
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Post by teampeeta on Dec 28, 2011 6:15:14 GMT -5
It was suggested by my internet friends. It looked interesting, and when I heard about the films, I immediately decided to read the books. I finished the books in 4 days on my Kindle. It just entered my life last week though..
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Post by lizthewiz on Dec 28, 2011 14:22:39 GMT -5
^^ Better late then never!!
It was advertised at our school book fair, and I was on the wire whether to read it or not. But I read the first two chapters and was hooked! I finished it in 2 days and soon read Catching Fire, but then had to wait a year for Mockingjay which was TORTURE!
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Post by Ellie on Dec 28, 2011 14:25:02 GMT -5
Honestly? The Potter Games. XD Then I found out my friend Libby read it and I picked it up after she recommended it to me.
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Post by Highlighter on Dec 28, 2011 14:45:08 GMT -5
I saw them around bookstores for about two years but I saw the internet fandoms growing, so at the beginning of the summer when I was at an airport with nothing to read I just picked up the first one to find out what was so great- I got the second and third from a library shortly after, and I've been a fan since- I've also gotten a few of my friends reading it, as they've heard of it from seeing stuff for the movie.
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