The Hunger Games: Trilogy, By Suzanne Collins

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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one" - George R.R Martin, A Dance with Dragons.

Humans are such sensitive beings and it is very difficult to understand how people have become impassive to experiences nowadays. It is almost as if they believe that being unsusceptible is a quality that one should possess in today’s world. I speak this because nowadays importance is being given to things like technology and partying etcetera which is good to an extent but due to this books, novels, poems, literature and art are taking a backseat. Nobody is able to take out time and appreciate the beauty of reading a book and appreciating the various emotions it invokes in a reader.

When one reads , it is just like a treat given to the heart and food to the soul. This is all because of the fact that a reader can experience emotions which he has not yet encountered in the real world but that is the beauty of it that you can still feel the emotions penned down in a book.
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I was fifteen when I read the whole series and it was very difficult to cope with the emotions every page of that book got with

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