YA has become huge in the past 5-10 years, thanks to Harry Potter and others.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 25/03/2012 08:58:58 PM
The Hunger Games? When did this become a big enough thing to have the hordes of adoring fans my facebook news feed tells me it does (judging by their rapturous statuses about the movie)? I mean, i think I may have heard that name before, but it still seems like this movie came out of nowhere. But maybe that's just me, lol.
And yes, among YA books, The Hunger Games has been a household name for the past few years. I've seen the name mentioned often enough on this forum over the past years that I had it marked down as something I should read at some point, even before I heard they were going to make a movie.
So on the one hand, it sort of is just you. On the other hand, YA fiction is to some extent quite separate from "adult" fiction, and there are few YA series that really are big enough to become famous even among people who have no interest in the genre, the way the HP and Twilight books did.
The Hunger Games
25/03/2012 12:13:28 AM
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I feel old
25/03/2012 09:57:20 AM
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YA has become huge in the past 5-10 years, thanks to Harry Potter and others.
25/03/2012 08:58:58 PM
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Re: YA has become huge in the past 5-10 years, thanks to Harry Potter and others.
25/03/2012 10:07:17 PM
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Yes, well, I do perhaps spend more time on the books board than you guys...
26/03/2012 09:47:08 PM
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I don't consider The Hunger Games YA.
30/03/2012 05:19:51 AM
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YA is a fairly recent invention anyway. (Not that it isn't great! I think it's a great invention!)
30/03/2012 04:01:35 PM
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I liked the movie, but the absolute funniest part was during the trailers:
25/03/2012 11:13:34 PM
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Aww we didn't get that trailer, but I've seen it before. *ending spoiler*
26/03/2012 08:42:58 AM
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Entertaining film. good lead character. people die. I got in the movie for free. what isn't to like? *NM*
27/03/2012 08:03:47 PM
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I liked it, but at times, I felt like I was a citizen of Panem, watching kids get killed on screen.
27/03/2012 08:07:48 PM
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Especially since Katniss is described as olive skinned herself.
27/03/2012 09:25:46 PM
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I dunno, I tend to not be a very attentive reader
28/03/2012 09:41:26 PM
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Well, it's one thing to not pay attention to physical descriptions
28/03/2012 11:38:57 PM
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