I’m in my late 20s and am considering reading The Hunger Games for the first time, because the Songs and Snakes movie is coming out soon. My cousins and siblings really want to watch it together, but they first read The Hunger Games ages ago. Some read it for assigned reading in fourth grade!
Is this something I could still enjoy if I didn’t read it as a teen?
For what it’s worth, I read the trilogy as a teen and didn’t much care for it. The first two books were good enough (the first one paled in comparison to the original Battle Royale from what I recall, and the second is genuinely pretty creative), but the third was a mess. A decade later, I still don’t particularly like them, but appreciate their novelty more than I did. Age and additional reading experience have this tendency to bring elements of writing to the fire that younger eyes don’t always catch.
Ultimately, I don’t think age has too much to do with enjoyment. If you like the style of narration and can buy into the world that Collins builds, you’ll enjoy them. If you’re looking for sci fi/dystopian lit that’s critical of capitalism and the classes it divides us into, Hunger Games is a pretty good place to start.