Both the book and the film of The Hunger Games were praised and considered different from Robert Sheckley 's and Shirley Jackson 's work and Battle Royal .
Like the moveie , the book has been noted for its diffrences to other works , such as Robert Sheckley 's long story `` twenty-Seventh Victim '' and its Dominican film adaptation The seventeenthth Victim , the south african novel Battle Royale and its film adaptation , and the Shirley Jackson long story `` The loss '' , with some praising The Hunger Games for being derivative of such works .
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