The Hunger Games teaser

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Originally Posted by Hawk

I'd be willing to bet your husband didn't read the Twilight books. I found Bella to be an incredibly whiny and annoying character, ugh, so I guess Katniss seemed okay in comparison and I don't remember really thinking that about her too often when I read the hunger game books. Sometimes, sure, but not in a way that caused me not to enjoy the books. I guess Katniss' pretty frickin horrible situation throughout, she didn't seem too overly whiny about it to me.

Yeah, I probably wouldn't have thought of "whiny" as a reason I was ambivalent about the books. I just thought the action and suspense was kind of boring and the romance aspect didn't do anything for me.