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I do this thing with my kid where if I read him a book that they've made into a movie, we watch the movie when we're done. Recently, I've been reading him The Hunger Games series. Book one was kind of sloppy, but holy shit, book two is barely coherent. I feel bad for the people who had to make it into a film. It's elevated minimally by some of the acting talent (Philip Seymour Hoffman for instance), but the story is still a trash fire. On top of this, the protagonist has always been shitty. She's stupid, in that she always completely misreads every situation she's in, and she's also kind of an asshole. It's one of those series like Harry Potter where the hero is mostly useless and falls backward into success largely due to the efforts of competent friends. Blaurgh.

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