What made you pick up/read The Hunger Games?

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[ice_alchemist_inu]

My friend brought it to work as an audiobook and we listened to it togeather

[niykko]

i thought everyone was reading it so i did

[Koda Crest]

I actually noticed "The Hunger Games" when it was first released. A friend had it, and she has lousy taste in books, so I immediately shied away from it. Not to mention I'm perfectly aware dystopian books are either hit or miss, normally miss.

So a few years later I was surprised to see my boyfriend's mom's best friend glued to it. I picked it up when they left to go somewhere and got through maybe seven pages before I had to put it down. Not for any reason besides of the choosing for the games being called "the Reaping". I have bad experience with corny names.

About a month later the book blew up my news feed on goodreads and I caved. Ended up reading the first two books in three or four days, and I'm on Mockingjay now. My dad actually read the first book in less than a day. We love it and are going to see the movie friday.

[Harry Pawter]

Suzanne Collins wrote Gregor the Overlander, I loved that series so I decided to give Hunger Games a shot. cat_3nodding

[CRiMSOnALLOY]

A friend of mine was all "COPARUQ#({FJWA CRIMSON YOU HAVE TO READ THIS IT'S ABOUT KIDS KILLING EACH OTHER AND A LITTLE GIRL DIES"
So, I read it.
Best decision ever

[zevri]

I saw the movie trailer and wanted more of Effie.

[Petite Hibou]

I had heard rumors that it was good
and when they first started casting for the movie
i learned that Jennifer Lawrence was playing Katniss
and I loved her in first class
so that made me grab it even more
and now Im in love with it!

[Sympathetic Dreams]

Long story. Okay... so at first my friend rec. to me. i went to
the library but it was out ( of course) so then i wanted to read it so bad
i FORCED my mom to drive me to bornes and nobles and bought the books. It was actuall
christmas. I was finished with the first book... and then to my surprise my sister got the 2 other
books for me. xDD

[Corina Cat]

I had been thinking about reading the hunger games for a while, but I always found another book to read or an excuse to put it off. It wasn't until I first saw the commercial when I decided, "OMFG! I GOTTA READ THIS BOOK!"

[CalvinRexx]

Tons of fanart of it by artists I watch on dA.
My friends were also really into it.
Eventually I caved and read the first one.
Couldn't put it down, even going so far as to reading it on my breaks at work.
Eventually just bought the other two.

[Sapokanikan]

I have actually seen magazines and such about the movie and even the book but it NEVER caught my attention like in Novemver; besides that fact that Peeta looked familiar in the magazine and then I knew it was Josh Hutcherson. But it was actually in February when my AVID teacher assigned the book that made me read it and made me love the series.

[Polkadot Pocky]

Weeeelll...
First of all my friend kept saying how good they were. But I honestly kind of ignored it.
Then I saw the commercial for the movie for the first time and thought "Huh...I didn't know those books were that popular. I might have to pick one up sometime."
For Christmas I got an eReader and I downloaded the Hunger Games.
I was instantly in love after reading the first chapter!
I'm planning on going to the movie with the friend who first mentioned it to me! =]

[Zero Omega]

I was threatened at gun point by a friend and forced to read it. gonk

Just kidding. ... Well, about the threatened at gun point part.

[KiddtheAssassin]

A lot of my friends whose opinions I trust said it was pretty awesome. I don't have time to read so I listened to the audiobooks. While the woman who was reading was probably the worst reader I've heard yet, the story was interesting enough to keep me listening to them.