
The Hunger Games Trilogy Surpasses Harry Potter Books on Amazon: Which Series Do You Like Better?
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2012/08/19 20:10:51
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Last week, Amazon announced that Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games trilogy has surpassed J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series in combined print and eBook sales. It is now the online retailer’s bestselling book series ever. This feat is especially impressive considering that the Hunger Games trilogy is much shorter than the Harry Potter saga and has been around for significantly less time.
"Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter's seven, and to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time," said Amazon Editorial Director Sara Nelson. “Customers love these books and all three titles are consistently on our Top 10 lists in both print and Kindle formats, and ‘The Hunger Games’ is also the most-borrowed book in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.”
This news came right before the highly anticipated release of The Hunger Games DVD on August 18. The film adaptation of the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire, will again star Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and has a tentative release date of November 22, 2013 according to Lionsgate.
So, SodaHeads? Which series do you like better: The Hunger Games or Harry Potter?

"Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter's seven, and to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time," said Amazon Editorial Director Sara Nelson. “Customers love these books and all three titles are consistently on our Top 10 lists in both print and Kindle formats, and ‘The Hunger Games’ is also the most-borrowed book in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.”
This news came right before the highly anticipated release of The Hunger Games DVD on August 18. The film adaptation of the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire, will again star Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and has a tentative release date of November 22, 2013 according to Lionsgate.
So, SodaHeads? Which series do you like better: The Hunger Games or Harry Potter?

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Top Opinion
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Harry Potter+20I really like them both, but Harry Potter is such a different world, where you get into the history of each character and get involved with every little drama. It also shows immense character growth and development in even the smallest of roles in perfect and realistic correlation to events that take place. You are taught the real values in life, such as bravery, loyalty, the sense of what's right and wrong and how to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. The Hunger Games is well written and has a really interesting plot with a delicate view of the politics of a dictatorship in a dystopia, but it just isn't the same. It hasn't inspired an entire generation, it cannot invoke the same level of emotion that J.K. Rowling managed and while I love it and know many people that love it as well, The Hunger Games will not continue to inspire generations to come.























But that's because they are two completely different stories wrote in two completely different ways. They shouldn't even be compared. Harry Potter is about magical people and creatures fighting together to destroy a strong wizard, while The Hunger Games is about a government supressing their people by killing their children, and then the people rising up against them.
Two completely different story lines that are both amazing. But I like politics and the underlying message of The Hunger Games more. It's something that is more realistic than Harry Potter.
The Hunger Games is just a fad.
Th Hunger Games is just a (bad) kiddie version of Battle Royale.
Harry Potter I have more of an emotional attachment to and I grew up with it so yeah, I pick Potter.
The Hunger Games movie sucked. If you didn't read the book you were just floating around without a compass. Also the emotional moments, both good and bad, were rather pathetic in the movie. Took Rue's death from a major emotional pitch to the equivalent of 'oh golly gee darn'.
I haven't read the Harry Potter books, so I didn't vote. I did see the first Harry Potter movie, none of the others. So comparing HP's first movie to HG's first movie... HP wins.
•you are saying that hunger games is a fad? What the hell..... I mean, they are both books, they will both eventually fade, idgaf what they are about, but they will both fade, and when we are grandparents we will try to get our grand kids to read the book, and maybe enjoy them, but they won't be popular anymore!!!! I mean really!!!
•how can you say that it will "fade" after all the movies are out? Are all the hunger games fans just gonna keel over and die? There is SOMETHING wrong with that statement....
•and, yea, Harry potter does have more books sold because there are DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF BOOKS in the first place..... I mean, really!!!! Can u really say that and say it is an accomplisnment???? Wow, if u have to argue that, just wow
•this is the best of them all, the true laugher..... Harry potter is 100% original...... That is HILLARIOUS.... U TRULY think that NO ONE has EVER thought of magic???? Of wizards and witches?!?!?!!!? Hahahhhahaha, wow, truly a wow statement.....
•HAHAHAHAH, and then you go on to say, that it is "flawless".... I want you to look up EVERY book critic/blogger/reader that has EVER read Harry potter and if they ALL say, "yes, it was amazing, best and most perfect book ever" then I will agree, but, until then, stop assum...
•you are saying that hunger games is a fad? What the hell..... I mean, they are both books, they will both eventually fade, idgaf what they are about, but they will both fade, and when we are grandparents we will try to get our grand kids to read the book, and maybe enjoy them, but they won't be popular anymore!!!! I mean really!!!
•how can you say that it will "fade" after all the movies are out? Are all the hunger games fans just gonna keel over and die? There is SOMETHING wrong with that statement....
•and, yea, Harry potter does have more books sold because there are DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF BOOKS in the first place..... I mean, really!!!! Can u really say that and say it is an accomplisnment???? Wow, if u have to argue that, just wow
•this is the best of them all, the true laugher..... Harry potter is 100% original...... That is HILLARIOUS.... U TRULY think that NO ONE has EVER thought of magic???? Of wizards and witches?!?!?!!!? Hahahhhahaha, wow, truly a wow statement.....
•HAHAHAHAH, and then you go on to say, that it is "flawless".... I want you to look up EVERY book critic/blogger/reader that has EVER read Harry potter and if they ALL say, "yes, it was amazing, best and most perfect book ever" then I will agree, but, until then, stop assuming and making an ass out of you and me, because, this is too stupid to even address -___- I mean, really....
•and then you give up, and start running out of stupid things...... Then you insult me, I'm not gonna fight that, it's just uncountable amounts of BULL$#IT coming out of your keyboard/mouth
• next time, think before you type, and maybe do some research before you get utterly and completely humiliated/destroyed in your lust for power, and make a complete ass of yourself....
:D have a great life