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I refuse to get involved in this blatant rip-off of Battle Royale!
I've read the first Hunger Games and watched the first Battle Royal movie as well as read some of the manga. I feel that they are different enough that to me it doesn't seem like a rip-off. I also feel that if that is going to be argued then Battle Royal could be seen as a rip-off of Lord to the Flies. Over-all though my major gripe with the book is that it seems far to violent for young readers but the story while engaging is certainly not what I would call advanced reading by any stretch so to me this feels like this book doesn't have a proper niche audience, maybe it should be market to adults as something along the lines of an action movie where you don't have to really care a whole lot for the storytelling just come along for the ride. Then again I may just be getting old and teens today can read this with out it negativity influencing them more than any of the other crap out there.
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