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Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 02 May 2012 06:47:42AM 2 points [-]

I read the trilogy last month. The books are bad, but the first two at least are entertaining page-turners; the final book is much worse and I skipped a large part of it that was much too boring/stupid.

I don't know so much about the specific LW-parts problems - I think those don't annoy me as much as they do some LW regulars. The world-building in general is very self-contradictory and has huge explanatory gaps; this'll annoy you if you're used to good SF. The characters are all cartoonish to the extreme. The prose is alright, however, and the emotional world of the heroine is shown deftly and convincingly.

Comment author: Suryc11 03 May 2012 08:48:48AM 1 point [-]

Would you mind clarifying about the contradictory aspects of the universe that Collins creates?

I am sure that there are logical inconsistencies and explanatory gaps along the same lines as the ones in the Harry Potter series (particularly relative to HPMoR), but I simply cannot recall any specific examples in the Hunger Games.