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2:55am July 7, 2014

I am so strange.

I enjoy discussion of The Hunger Games.  I find the whole idea of what happened in the story interesting.

But I found the books boring as hell.  Only inertia kept me reading them.  Then I wanted those few days of my life back.  I couldn’t sustain any interest.  I couldn’t like it even when I intellectually liked knowing what was happening and analyzing things and stuff.  And now I like reading people’s commentary on it.

But I hated the books.  Hated them.  It took every ounce of willpower not to just throw them across a room.  And it was mostly boredom.  It was mostly “Why am I even bothering to sit here reading this crap when I could be doing something interesting?”

I haven’t encountered anyone else who had this reaction to them.  I’m not judging the fact that most people liked them, or disliked them, or whatever, but complete and utter mind-numbing boredom is not a reaction I hear of from either side.

Notes:
  1. looktothelighthouse reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    While I enjoyed The Hunger Games, I had totally disinterested feelings about The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings...
  2. mmmyoursquid reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    i loved the hunger games while i was reading them and then looked back on them and couldn’t entirely figure out why but...
  3. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Agreed. BORING. The things people say about it confuse me so much because - did I miss something? How did you find that...
  4. mttheww said: somehow I’ve always imagined I would not enjoy the hunger games
  5. cryforthefuture said: I actually stopped reading halfway through the first book because it was so boring to me.
  6. rutdeleu said: I had the same reaction and feel the same way about a different popular series. Liking it, but not the actual books. It was very hard for me to get as far in the series as I did before giving up. (I haven’t tried the Hunger Games though.)
  7. withasmoothroundstone posted this