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?
Nah. I reread it with my 11yo and enjoyed it even more because of the company, and I’m 43. We finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes together and now just waiting for the film to watch it together.
I think it’s still worth reading, that series in particular is very well done in that it can be enjoyed by a large age range. I was a teen when it first came out and read it with my dad who also enjoyed it.
Some of the writing and plot may be more simplistic/young than a book targeted towards a more adult/mature audience but that’s not a bad thing imo
Oh cmon…
You can’t decide if you should read a book or not? You NEEEED Reddit and strangers to decide this for you?
Are you so devoid of an actual human personality that you can’t just… read something on your own? You need validation from strangers first?
No one tell OP. Let them figure out ON THEIR OWN if they are… allowed to read a book or not.
Good god this is pathetic.
Hunger Games holds up REALLY well and only gets more and more relevant unfortunately.
I read them in college and thought they were okay. They’re very easy reads, but are fun and have some solid twists and turns. The love triangle is overdone, but that’s the YA genre.
Red Rising might be up your alley too. The first book is sort of like a more interesting, more adult Hunger Games. The series gets quite a bit different after that, although they both sort of have the same premise of a class uprising inspired by one rebel figure.
I’m 34. Last year, I read multiple middle grade novels. I felt weird at first, but who cares. They are an easy read with fun stories. Go for it.
Honestly I just listened to an audiobook of the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and while I rolled my eyes at some of the most YA aspects I found myself greatly engrossed and emotionally involved with it - and this has given me an insane itch to reread the books again. For clarity, I’m 30, I used to be obsessed with the books at 17, but I’d say they hold up greatly, especially the political aspects which for me make it stand out from other YA material.
Read it in my 40s.loved it.
Don’t directly engage. Just go on a 30-minute rant about the whole series and all of her actions/ decisions makes so much more sense if it’s through the eyes of a young woman on the autism spectrum.
They won’t bring it up again.
Read it. There are some adult themes in there. It is also very violent and not really romantic in a typical way. There is something for everyone
I read it in my mid-20’s and like it. 🤷
I’m 65. It’s on my Kindle PaperWhite to read eventually.
The secret to good YA books is that general audiences will also enjoy the stories.
I’m not a fan of that specific series, but I enjoy some YA every once in a while. I think the “Young adult” meaning should be changed to “Young AND adult”. A good book for teenagers can also be enjoyed by adults, obviously.
55+ here - it’s excellent