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Rip off of Hunger Games


Since The Hunger Games trilogy had such High rate of Success, others are Leaching off the idea..Sad

Ron And Hermione....Finally!

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not really, take a look at the book when in comes out on tuesday. pretty much teh only thing it has in common with hunger games is that it's YA dsytopian and there's a lottery, aside from those two it pretty much stands on it's own.

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When my mom read it she actually said the same thing (that's it's just like the bachelor) which i thought was funny since that was the intent in the first place. i must say, i was pleasantly surprised by how the book went. i think the bachelor concept is pretty ridiculous, but Kiera really managed to pull it off brilliantly!

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Since The Hunger Games trilogy had such High rate of Success, others are Leaching off the idea..Sad


And you think "The Hunger Games" is actually original!

While in and of itself is not original either, get your hands on the book "Battle Royale" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale) by Koushun Takami, and the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/combined) of the same name.

Now, if you want to read the actual original in the genre, you'll have to get "The Long Walk" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk) by Stephen King!


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It pretty much is. I mean the premise is original enough but you can tell the writer was channeling the hunger games. Gavril is a rip off of Cearsar Flickman there was even a part where the protagonist of the selection is waving and trying to win over a crowd thats exactly the same as the hunger games. This show could be good but they need to recast badly.

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