Αγώνες πείνας
Suzanne Collins, 2008
Fantasy Literary fictionScience fictionYoung adult
A televised fight to the death turns survival into spectacle—and asks what a person can still choose under a system built to control them.
Feels like dread, defiance and hope. About society, death and freedom.
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What happens when survival itself becomes the evening’s entertainment?
Σε μια σκοτεινή εκδοχή ενός όχι και τόσο μακρινού μέλλοντος, δώδεκα αγόρια και δώδεκα κορίτσια αναγκάζονται να εμφανιστούν σ’ ένα ζωντανό τηλεοπτικό σόου, στους Αγώνες Πείνας. Υπάρχει μόνο ένας κανόνας: ή σκοτώνεις ή πεθαίνεις. Suzanne Collins.Collins has said the idea came from channel-surfing between reality television and footage of the Iraq War.
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- Feels like dread, defiance and hope. About society, death and freedom.
- What should I read after Αγώνες πείνας?
- If you liked Αγώνες πείνας, try Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 (Hajime Isayama), Blindness (José Saramago) and The Scorch Trials (James Dashner).
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How much of your safety is really just a well-built cage?
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If we weighed every consequence, we would never leave the chair.
If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality.
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The monsters are gone; the pictures in their heads are not.
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