So, I have this problem with books made into movies. If I see the movie before the book, there's little chance I can read the book. Regardless of how much I liked/loved/adored the film. I bet its because books are much more descriptive and, having watched the movie and knowing what's gonna happen beforehand, it is easier for me to get bored. It happened to me with Lord of the Rings, it happened with Interview with a Vampire, and in much different note, with The Vampire Diaries -which is not technically a movie, and it is not really based on the book that much but still. I've always wanted to read The Hunger Games, and when I first heard this was gonna be made into a movie I could almost hear the ticking clock. So I finally read it. 
 There's not much to say cause so many reviews have been written about this but let me just say, I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it somewhere around.. 2 a.m? I literally couldn't put it down. As rarely happens with other books, there was not one page that bored me. I skipped nothing. Hooray for me. I was hooked from the very beginning and that's probably because of the narrator. Katniss is such a great character, and so are all the rest. Even the ones who weren't supposed to be relevant had a depth other authors can only dream of. Its so good having a heroine -and hero- who are actually smart. Good for Suzanne Collins tsu 
 The whole world it's set in makes the book both disturbing and exciting really (not to be morbid or anyting, lol) but the whole reality TV situation and how they had to manipulate viewers to achieve things was strangely familiar. It was the most gripping novel I read in a long time. 5 , AMAZING!