‘The Hunger Games’ Meets ‘Uglies’ and America’s Next Top Model

I’m sorry, but if Tyra Banks name is attatched to it I’m not going to even look at it. She’s such a hypocrite! She’s always talking about the fabulousness of being who you are yet she promotes rail thin women on the verge of anorexia. It makes me sick. And for her to copy something as amazing as Hunger Games is wrong in so many ways. The sad thing is, she’ll probablly have a hit with the book. Celebrities often do.

it sounds more like uglies. it doesnt sound like a good book, couldnt she thought of soemthing better then calling the land of freakish model people “modelland”?

woah woah woah you cant compare this crap to THE HUNGER GAMES, THG is actually good and creative and doesnt copy plots off of other books, this sounds alot like uglies to me. whihc was a prett good book. but “modelland” isnt like the hunger games AT ALL IN ANY WAY except that maybe the people sound like people from the capitol… and she has to fight through :O thigh high boot camp!! ooohh the horror…

@rin aelius i didnt realize i said the same sentence as you!! sorry about that

Scott Westerfeld and Suzanne Collins are two of my favorite YA novelists and I feel insulted that Modelland is being compared to their books. I haven’t read the chapter but based on the excerpts posted by some people here, it’s horrible. I like America’s Next Top Model and the Tyra show but writing just isn’t her thing… God, it’s a total rip-off, and the names are nasty! But of course it’s going to be a best-seller.

From reading the comments above, I have decided to not even bother reading it. Thanks guys, for saving me some valuable time that I can now put towards re-re-re-reading Mockingjay.

@THGFAN
Nah it’s okay XD Great, smart, well written minds think alike. (but not in Tyra Banks’ case)

Hahahaha NO! First of all, its nothing I’d get into. Second, the names are really ridiculous! Theophilus Lovelaces OMG I had to stop right there it was sooo funny! And then there was to much onomatopoeia. I hate onomatopoeia -_- The Hunger Games does not need to even set next to shelves by THAT book!

Modelland? LOLOLOLOLOL. Read Homeland.

Attempting to feel bad about laughing during the little reading I could do of that chapter…
Attempt failed.
It really was bad. And I just can’t seem to find it in myself to feel bad about saying that.

it was a failed attempt, not to long ago people shunned the YA genre all in all now EVERYONE is seeing what a hit it really is, but we like the ORIGINAL stuff not this, i hate books that try to rip this stuff off it just sets people up for disappointment. This just seems so stupid, I’m The Hunger Games all the way!

Someone pointed out how Theophilus Lovelaces sounded like Mr. Lovegood’s whole name from HP. (I can’t spell his first name for the life of me… It starts with an ‘X’ and ends in ‘philis’ I think.)

@GAB, That’s what I thought! I read it and I thought, “Theophilus Lovelaces? That sounds exactly Xenophillius LoveGood, Luna LoveGood’s Father- Great, now all I can see is him as an old man with really long hair…”

I could not make it through that chapter for the life of me. Tyra, contrary to what you believe, you are not good at everything. In fact, you are hardly good at anything.

P.S. No one can “smile with their eyes.” That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

And that last part was random, nothing to do with the book.

The worst Mary Sue names I’ve ever heard since “Rachel Rainbow Anatasia Rosalia Raven Immortal Dark’ness Rainbow Cullen.”
I mean. Really. Tookie?
What the (insert cuss word of choice here).
I couldn’t even bring myself to read the chapter.
I’ll probably laugh when I go to Half Price Books(second hand book store) and see an entire bookcase full of unwanted Modellands.
That money-crazed (insert demeaning word here.)
This doesn’t compare to The Hunger Games.
Because I’m sure Katniss Everdeen has bigger problems than boot camp.

Like GAB and Becca said, not only is Theophilus Lovelaces an incredibly stupid name, it is way too similar to Xenophilius Lovegood.

I made myself read part of the chapter, and the writing is awful. It kind of reminds me of a badly written fan fiction with enough adjectives to fill Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I haven’t NOT wanted to read a book so badly since I read Twilight. I can totally compare this to when I first heard the song Friday. I thought, “What a horrible attempt at a parody!” And then, I realized it was serious. Same with this book.

Also, does the line, “There was one rule and one rule only: a girl must be walking in order to be chosen.” totally sound to anyone else like, “There is only one rule: Kill or be Killed”?

I have to agree, It was horrible. But it has my name in the first chapter!

When I read “The cover looks like The Great Gastsby” I turned around on my office chair and picked up my copy of The Great Gatsby and laughed because the cover is almost identical.

I review books at goodreads and a friend of mine there suggested this book because I am on a dystopia fix (and I just read Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens which I liked better than I thought I would) but having read the first chapter I don’t think it is for me. It just seems very odd and like others have said it does seem like an obscure mixture of Uglies, ANTM, I name my kids funny things, and some sort of futuristic world. Not that impressed so far but maybe after some of my friends have read it I might consider it.

Well, I like the sound of the word “Intoxibella”. Say it out loud, it rolls off my tongue nicely. The rest just makes me cringe so bad.

Hahaha yeah Xenophelious Lovegood… Theophilius Lovelaces? Really? Wow…I’m kinda reading it just because it makes me laugh. I love Tyra and I think she really cares about the whole ‘girls should feel great about themselves’ thing but she is not and will never be an author…this is…sad. It’s hard to read because she’s actually serious…

Hahahahaha sounds like a really bad parody of The Hunger Games, Uglies, and Harry Potter

Good lord, the description sounds like a Bratz horror movie or something.

Errr… I didn’t really get the first chapter… They were at like a runway show? What were they doing? And really. Tooke De La Creme? Where did that come from? Sounds like food… I don’t know how this is like the Hunger Games, but it does remind me of Uglies. bleh

in my opinion, i don’t think its that similiar to the hunger games very much, but i read the review and this book sounds ridiculous…tookie de la creme?? what kind of a name is that?? and Theophilus Lovelace sounds WAAAAY too much like Xenophilius Lovegood!! tyra banks should NOT be an author!!

Leave novel writing to the professionals Tyra… and who ever wrote that article has in no way read the Hunger Games

Bleck!!! What is that???? Hahaha!!!

I read the first chapter. It sounds like she composed it in about 5 minutes! It was confusing, many of the names were ridiculous, you couldn’t understand anything. It sounds like she took bits and sentences of popular young adult books, changed the words around a little then slapped it and glued it altogether with a horrible story line. Yeah, I’m sure Thigh High Boot Camp is as horrible as an arena full of 24 children, fighting to the death.
It’s an insult to the HG to be compared to that garbage.

I think Tyra is a good model, and good at coaching and teaching models, but writing is not one of her talents and I doubt it will do much to make her money. And the only publicity she will get is about how bad her book is.

I actually read the entire sample chapter because I thought “this must get better at some point right?!” but I was mistaken! I am still amazed how this pile of crap got a publisher but then again if it wasn’t Tyra Banks it wouldn’t have been published! one thing is clear… I won’t be reading anything more of that thing!

Concerning the main character’s name, are you guys saying ‘Tookie’ as in took-ee? I say two-key. I don’t know, someone just said that it reminded them of Wookie but I thought it was more like that creepy petname pookie. XD

This is when you’re glad that someone as talented and competent as Suzanne Collins wrote the Hunger Games instead of some overconfident, shallow woman that THINKS she just can go ahead and publish a very bad brainfart. My eyes started becoming blind past the first paragraph. I had to stop, it was just… unbearable.

what an insult just the first chapter was disgustingly horrific THG and uglies are in no way comparable I swear tyras book made me want to chuck the book at the wall and burn it,it was THAT bad