Hunger Games Trilogy
I felt like I couldn't smile anymore after finishing the three books in 2.5 days in a row. It has sickened me to guts to think that death is being write off ever so casually in the books, that taking another human being's life is portrayed to be so easily accomplished, even though you had the excuse that your own life was at stake. It's just wrong. Shoot an arrow and somebody is dead. Twist a neck and someone is gone forever. The setting of the story reminds me of that of 1984 or even Animal Farm; all of them based on some sort of imagined "future" on the human race - only that animals were used in Animal Farm and some sort of new, liberated, brainwashed type of humans were the population in 1984, not too far away from what the Capitol citizens of Panem were like. I'm in kind of a zombie mode now, with mixed in emotions about death in real life and then death in the books with its frequent association with convenience, and with the emotional trauma Hunger ...