J.K. Rowling or Suzanne Collins?
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Re: J.K. Rowling or Suzanne Collins?
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Couldn't agree more with this - both authors are incredible and have written brilliant series, but J K Rowling will always get my vote.angiejack456 wrote: ↑05 Feb 2019, 12:35 I love both series. They are both amazing reads. However, my vote has to be for J.K. Rowling. Her world building, plot complexities, and character development are above and beyond.
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Besides Harry Porter has an edge over the Hunger Games.
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Second thing, I am comparing by writing style, plotline and impact on myself. I pick the Harry potter because I have grown up reading it and it has shaped me. The Hunger Games was a really good series but it didn't have as much impact on me. The plotline in both books were amazing and had very little holes. The way that the authors had used detail zooming to make every chapter to blend is very impressive. As expected since they are experienced authors with years of expirience. But I will have to choose Harry Potter again because during the first three pages i was already very interested and I was only in 5th grade at the time. It took me until the 3rd chapter to really get interested in The Hunger games. I did read it when I was a bit older though.
They are both amazing authors and have their own strengths and weaknesses. If we were talking about just the authors my opinion might have changed.
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Of course, that's expected of their genres: Collins is post-apolyptic YA, which is intended to show the real and the gritty, while Rowling writes what's mostly regarded as middle grade fantasy, which had fantastic worldbuilding.
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The Hunger Games series, however, is far more fast paced. It is jarringly obvious to the reader from the first handful of chapter that the series is combating the idea of oppressive, communist like estates that have complete control over its people. It also comments on humanity as a whole, similar to Harry Potter, but does so in a far more direct way. The downside is that it loses key audience members from the start who criticize it for being too intense.
I think J.K. Rowling, and by default Harry Potter, is a better writer because she is able to attack these incredibly important themes in a clear, yet not offensive manner. It changes the readers perspective on how they address those different from them as they read the book rather then yelling at them that things must change, which is how it feels when reading Hunger Games. Sometimes more subtle approaches are the most impactful because it gets to the root.
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