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The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy - Leah Wilson, Brent Hartinger, Jackson Pearce, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
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Includes 3 brand new essays on Gale, the Games, and Mockingjay!**Already read the first edition of The Girl Who Was on Fire? Look for The Girl Who Was on Fire - Booster Pack in the Kindle store to get just the three new essays and the extra movie content.**Katniss Everdeen’s adventures may have... show more
Includes 3 brand new essays on Gale, the Games, and Mockingjay!**Already read the first edition of The Girl Who Was on Fire? Look for The Girl Who Was on Fire - Booster Pack in the Kindle store to get just the three new essays and the extra movie content.**Katniss Everdeen’s adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues to blaze in the hearts of millions worldwide . . . especially with the highly anticipated March 2012 release of the film version of The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence.In The Girl Who Was on Fire - Movie Edition, sixteen YA authors take you back to the world of the Hunger Games with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, reality TV, survival, and more. From the trilogy's darker themes of violence and social control to fashion and weaponry, the collection's exploration of the Hunger Games reveals exactly how rich, and how perilous, Panem, and the series, really is.• How does the way the Games affect the brain explain Haymitch’s drinking, Annie’s distraction, and Wiress’ speech problems?• What does the rebellion have in common with the War on Terror?• Why isn’t the answer to “Peeta or Gale?” as interesting as the question itself?• What should Panem have learned from the fates of other hedonistic societies throughout history—and what can we?CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Mary Borsellino, Sarah Rees Brennan, Terri Clark, Bree Despain, Adrienne Kress, Sarah Darer Littman, Cara Lockwood, Elizabeth M. Rees, Carrie Ryan, Ned Vizzini, Lili Wilkinson, Blythe Woolston, Diana Peterfreund (NEW), Brent Hartinger (NEW), Jackson Pearce (NEW)
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781936661589 (1936661586)
ASIN: 1936661586
Publisher: Smart Pop
Pages no: 253
Edition language: English
Series: The Hunger Games Companions
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A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it
3.0 Book 69/100: The Girl Who Was On Fire - Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
Reading this book was like reading a collection of essays by an incredibly articulate college class.It's been a long time since I've read "critical reviews" like this, and it seems perhaps I've lost the taste for it. I guess I just expected something different than for a bunch of YA authors to write...
Book 7
Book 7 rated it
1.0 The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
This book was okay. The analyses were surface level and for the most part failed to extrapolate to real world situations, which was both useless and cowardly. The strong themes of the Hunger Games, and (especially) young readers looking for more, deserve better treatment than this book offered.
Scott Reads It!
Scott Reads It! rated it
3.0 Girl Who Was on Fire
Seen at Scott Reads It!I have been a Hunger Games fan ever since 2008 and I remember when THG wasn't the global phenomenon it is today. In fact I remember recommending THG to a few of my classmates and I remember them telling me it sounded stupid and ridiculous. **Fast Forward 4 Years** The same peo...
Miss Clark
Miss Clark rated it
Commentary and analysis and just plain old opinions from some YA authors and it is a great collection. I did not care overly much for this series by the time I had slogged through Mockingjay. But these authors did such a great job at presenting their cases in their essays and raise some very interes...
Ironic Contradictions
Ironic Contradictions rated it
I feel as if I need to defend my stance on any polarising books. Although, as G.K. Chesterton just pointed out to me, if my audience is set in their views nothing I say can persuade them otherwise. Eitherway when it comes to [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne...
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