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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9806283" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Finished the Hunger Games prequel, which took some time because I've been busy and the book is pointless. Collins is good at plot, so the action-oriented scenes were vaguely entertaining. The main issue is that there is literally no point - it's about how a narcissistic sociopath acted like a narcissistic sociopath before finishing exactly as he started, a narcissistic sociopath.This should not have been surprising - I doubt many people read The Hunger Games trilogy and thought to themselves, "That President Snow seems like a complicated and nuanced villain...I wonder what his backstory is!" So this book has all the problems of  prequels generally (you know how it is going to end) but without any themes to sustain it. Paradise Lost, this isn't...it isn't even The Phantom Menace." It's more like Solo, except at least Han Solo is a fun character.If you can't tell, this is a total pan. I do not recommend.</blockquote>