Both the book and the film of The Hunger Games were criticized for being similar to Seventh Victim by Robert Sheckley and Battle Royale and their respective film adaptations and to The Lottery by Shirley Jackson .
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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