The Hunger Pains

I recently read "The Hunger Pains" by The Harvard Lampoon, a parody of the the widely popular book, "The Hunger Games." It has virtually the same plot as the hunger games, except the Peeta character dies at the end, and the Kato character survives in his place.  Besides this plot change, the only big changes are the names of the characters, for instance Archie instead of Kato, and many other small humorous changes throughout the book. One of my favorites is instead of picking a boy and girl at random to be tributes, there is a massive game of the nose game in each district, and the last boy and girl without their fingers on their noses are the tributes. Humorous but small changes like this are made to keep the book going, and I think it was a fun read. A few other changes I liked were instead of the gamekeepers starting the forest-fire, Katniss, or Kantkiss in the parody, accidentally sets it on fire with a flamethrower she gets. Instead of shooting the apples to blow up the tower of food, Katniss takes a small bite out of every piece of food, and they are so discussed that they blow it all up. Lastly, the biggest change in my opinion was the tone of the arena. In the hunger games, it is very serious and intense, but in the hunger pains, Katniss routinely has conversations with other contenders and even the cameramen at times. I recommend this book to all who have read the hunger games as a fun read.