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The song playing during the closing credits of The Hunger Games was haunting and eerie, but I could barely make out the lyrics.

Turns out it is Abraham's Daughter by Arcade Fire, and once you know the lyrics, well, it wouldn't be a bad theme song for someone else's closing credits, would it?

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I had misgivings about reading The Hunger Games. I find YA novels to be more hit-or-miss than most of what I read -- there is some YA fiction I quite like, but it has to be really good for me not to find it juvenile and a waste of my time. So I usually don't pick up the latest hot thing in YA fiction, even if it doesn't involve vampires. (I ignored ( Read more... )