Update: I finally did end up reading this apology for a dystopia while I was GR AWOL. 
 Suzanne Collins writes with more economy than others cashing in on the genre. It's just the plot and premise that are ludicrous - not to mention the fact that finding the Hunger Games entertaining fiction (surely not edifying, please) mimics the actions of those who are intended to be interpreted as despicable in the book. 
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 I can make no useful comment on the writing style, or the plot, or the characters. I read through the first chapter. Imagining such a reality made me ill for the rest of the day.