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Originally Posted by pegasi&prefects
It might be the tainted by teenage girls effect. I know a coworker was intending to see the first film before he found out that, ew, it was a YA book with a female protagonist.
What can you do?
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Well, in this case, be thankful for the last-minute warning.
I am pretty sure though, that the problem is not that
The Hunger Games is a YA book that happens to have a female protagonist. There are lots of YA books with a female protagonist, and they don't tend to be any better or worse than the drivel or otherwise available with male protagonists -- the problem is that YA
in general is overloaded with stereotypically-YA books.
The Hunger Games is IMHO one of them (though I admit to being heavily biased against dystopian-as-a-genre).
Oh, well -- that is opinions for you.
If
The Hunger Games was really as good as some people make out over here, I am sure it would've been selected
... and then people can feel vindicated for having read it, or not as the case may be, because I couldn't really care less what other people think I should think.
The Hugo is all opinions anyway, and I have no qualms about rejecting their opinions as utter drivel anytime I specifically agree with their choices.
