Book review....The Hunger Games

I was originally not planning to read these books, as science fiction is not really "my thing."

BUT.

Then I read where the writer got her inspiration, namely that she was flipping between a reality TV Show and updates from the war in Iraq.

After living in the Arab world with more than its fair share of dictators, I could really feel the plausibleness of Katniss' situation.  Being monitored, having lots of "no-entry zones," seeing how dictators like to make one or two people suffer to prove the people a lesson, and then finally how classically the revolutions in the Middle East mimic the revolutions happening in The Hunger Games.

One or two big differences though:  In the Middle East, wandering out in the forest with an unrelated guy can be just as big of a crime as simply going into the no-go zones.

It seems like "districts" in the Hunger Games lacked the technology which made Tunisia and several other Arab revolution countries successful in their revolution.  Imagine if the "districts" had twitter and facebook...

And finally, unlike the Hunger Games, I dont think that the revolutions in the Arab World are going to produce any better results for mankind, and in fact will probably result in a wave of Islamic governments and a resulting wave in persecution for minorities in the Arab world.

I just finished book two, and the author has wittingly pulled me in so that I just HAVE to read the third book.

Did you know that they are already translated into Swedish?