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Hunger Games > “Yay for abusive relationships with sparkly gay cadavers and doggies!”

@QuantumStorm@xanga - I wasn’t going to read Twilight but after this whole “sparkly gay cadaver” thing I think I’m going to the library.

I haven’t read either yet but from friends who have, say The Hunger Games was a much better read.  Either way I am glad people are taking an interest in reading books.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - I HAVE FAILED YOU. NO! DON’T DO IT! 

Oh god, The Hunger Games are AMAZING! I just read them last weekend and finished a book a day — I couldn’t stop! I haven’t read Twilight, so I know I’m very biased, but (spoiler alert?) the nature of the Hunger Games (not the series, the actual competition) is that all competitors except one die. And then (spoiler alert) there’s a rebellion, and a war. So yeah, there’s a love story, but the stakes don’t get much higher than this. So I’m totally with Elizabeth Banks on this!

Side note: If you haven’t read The Hunger Games yet, GO DO IT NOW!  

I think Hunger Games has more at stake for the characters. Whereas in Twilight, Bella chose to love Edward and get close to his family. In Hunger Games Katniss’s whole world is a battle. She is protecting her family by fighting as well as her district.

I cannot wait to watch the movie!

Twilight is shit. The Hunger Games are amazing. You can’t even compare the two.

did you seriously just compare twilight to the hunger games?

The hunger games has strong male AND female characters and the stakes are life or death. Twilight has very weak female characters and the stakes are Bella’s life because she can’t live without a man. >__<

I’m so sick of people comparing Twilight to every popular book to hit the shelves, especially when they have nothing in common besides the main character being female. If you want to compare the books, The Hunger Games has a solid gripping plot, in-depth characters, a meaning and a reason for things to be happening, solid writing, and a female character who is strong, courageous and fighting for something worthwhile. Twilight is shallow sap about a girl who commits her life to a boy…nothing really to compare in my book. 

@leesha628 - @eatdrinkandbemaryy@xanga - EXACTLY! Why do we have to keep comparing stuff to Twilight? Yes, we get it, Twilight is a piece of shit. We’re beating a dead horse. Can we move on? 

The Hunger games is a fantastic series.  Not at all comparable to Twilight.

I read both of the sets of books, and definitely the Hunger Games is better, on every single aspect comparing the two.  I hope they make the movies more excellent than they did with Twilight as well.  My only qualm with the Hunger Games was the piss poor ending of the 3rd book.  I have said it so many times, but it was like the author just gave up and tried to wrap it all up in a big woosh.  It was terrible. 

But nothing beats the hideousness of “Renesmee”  REALLY BELLA?  F***ING REALLY????

@ChelseaSmilesMore@xanga - EXACTLY.  twilight has dangerous implications for gender roles of both men and women.  hunger games is super disturbing of course, but also thought provoking in all the right ways.

The first Hunger Games book is way better and not too similar to Twilight, but I feel like the second two Hunger Games books lose a lot of the charn (and theme) of the fist book and are a more applicable comparison to the Twilight series.  They’re much more love triangle-y and less about kids killing each other.

There is no comparison between Twilight and the Hunger Games, though I do feel HG was limited by it’s young adult fiction classification…I think Collins could’ve explored some really interesting things had she been willing to kick it up a notch.

The Hunger Games trilogy was much more appealing to me than the Twilight series. It was intense and emotional and it had a strong female heroine. I mean, come on, you can’t even compare Bella to Katniss. Twilight had more focus on the love story, whereas the love story in The Hunger Games wasn’t the main aspect of the story. I think there was definitely much more at stake in The Hunger Games and I think it is hands down a better series than Twilight.

I have read them both and loved them both for different reasons.  Don`t kill me with hate but i probably had a harder time putting down the Twilight books than I did the Hunger Games but I think I just haven`t had much reading time lately.  I think both series are awesome.

I’m a monster that goes sparkly in the sun!!! XD Yeah…Don’t like twilight, never heard of the hunger games though Borders closed on my town T_T…………

i just don’t understand why so many people insist on comparing the two…

i liked both…though i do think hunger games was a little better.  twilight was just that much more stupid.  the hunger games idea wasn’t stupid, it’s actually a really fascinating dystopian world that makes you think.  what makes the hunger games a little silly for me is that the writing wasn’t that great, but made for easy reading.  the love triangle made me roll my eyes a little…but it’s not as cheesy as twilight, but it was still kind of silly.

“Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” series, anyone?  Those were some of the three best books I’ve read in a long, long time.  I didn’t like the “Twilight” series or “The Hunger Games” series.  Not my cup of tea, really.  :/

I almost don’t want to bother with The Hunger Games because so many people are shitting their pants over it. Not that I’m some hipster and I can’t enjoy something because it’s popular, but it just feels like one of those things that end up being extremely overrated. Are The Hunger Games books supposed to be “young adult” books?

Hunger Games.  Come on.  KIDS having to fight each other to the death to keep everyone in Panem in line?!

I finished the first two books in two days.  About to start Mockingjay right now.  

Just because they are both young adult books that got movies doesn’t mean they can be compared….

I love both series.  I’ve read both series at least 3 times and most recently re-read The Hunger Games.

I think they’re hard to compare….they’re both about a sense of love…but different.  In the Hunger Games, Katniss has love for her family and for her home.  She fights for both.

In the Twilight Series, Bella is fighting for her love of Edward.  It’s always been about Edward.

Two different love stories, but both their own great love story.

there is just no comparison between these series.

this is like comparing gold to dog shit…