The Hunger Games: Survival of the Fittest

From the first word that I read from The Hunger Games I was hooked. I couldn't put the book down. It was funny because it was a book that I had purchased over the summer, intending to read once I got some free time. Now, after finishing the second book and starting the third I still can't stop reading. I finished the first two books in a matter of days and am on track to finish the third within a day. I absolutely became engrossed in the book and the story. I thought the story was easy to get caught up in and the characters were easy to become attached to. At numerous points through the first book I found myself hoping that events would turn on way even though I knew they wouldn't. Such as when Rue died, I was almost morning as much as Katniss. I felt like I knew the characters in the book as if they were my friends and felt the pain as each one of them died. 

Something that I immediately thought of when I found out what the Hunger Games actually were was the show Spartacus. In this show the gladiators have to fight each other, normally to the death, in an area with everyone watching. This just made me think of how the tributes had to kill one another with all of Panem watching. I won't give anything away, because I highly recommend reading the 2nd and 3rd books as they are just as good if not better than the fist, but especially in the 2nd book with everyone hanging on their every movement. Below is a clip from Spartacus: Gods of the Arena which was actually the unplanned prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The show received such high ratings in its first season that the producers couldn't help but make more episodes. This also reflects to how the people of Penam, even though troubled by the games, couldn't help but watch.