Book · 2008 · severe poverty
The Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games is amazing by Suzanne Collins.
Gretchen Rubin · On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Jan 2021 Listen at 1:05:19 What they say about it
- Discusses political themes and settings“there's all these districts”2
The best things said about it
It was Suzanne Collins the children's book or YA author who wrote those hugely successful novels The Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games series is a bit childish no disrespect but it's you know not meant to be the most sophisticated but it's fascinating how the metaphor I'm not even just like the direct storyline is there's all these districts and they're from very poor to very rich and the capital does nothing.
It's a Hunger Games it's like when I was reading this book Hunger Games I literally like oh my God this person copied North Korea.
Yeonmi Park The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024 So the modern example that I found was actually The Hunger Games, there is a capital and they divide 13 different districts they make everybody else out of the capital on verge of surviving.
Yeonmi Park The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · May 2021 Obvious examples include The Hunger Games with Katniss Everdeen.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
8 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a young adult dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic nation where children are forced to compete in a televised death match. Gretchen Rubin recommended the novel on On Purpose with Jay Shetty as a great read within children's and young adult literature. On The Book Review, Gilbert Cruz discussed the title while exploring the rise of dark YA dystopian fiction and mentioned the original trilogy alongside a prequel. Similarly, Sam Tanenhaus recalled interviewing Collins and her hugely successful novels during anniversary episodes of the podcast. The book also surfaced in political commentary, with a host on Timcast IRL and Jack Posobiec utilizing the society of the Capitol and its stark class divides as a metaphor for modern elitism and Washington D.C. Additionally, Yeonmi Park shared on The Joe Rogan Experience that reading the story felt strikingly reminiscent of the realities of North Korea.
Every mention
Gretchen Rubin You should read His Dark Materials, the trilogy and subsequent books by Philip Pullman, Kristin Cashore's G… 1
Recommended
“You should read His Dark Materials, the trilogy and subsequent books by Philip Pullman, Kristin Cashore's Graceling trilogy, The Hunger Games is amazing by Suzanne Collins.”
Gilbert Cruz This is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The first book came out in 2008. 2
Discussed
“This is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The first book came out in 2008.”
Discussed
“there was an initial Trilogy of books in The Hunger Games series and then Suzanne Collins the author wrote a prequel several years ago and this is another prequel”
Sam Tanenhaus It was Suzanne Collins the children's book or ya author who wrote those hugely successful novels The Hunger… 2
Discussed
“It was Suzanne Collins the children's book or ya author who wrote those hugely successful novels The Hunger Games The Hunger Games”
Discussed
“Suzanne Collins ù do you know who she is ù and those books ù The Hunger Games The Hunger Games”
Yeonmi Park so the modern example that i found was actually the hunger games there is a capital and they divide 13 diff… 2
Discussed
“It's a Hunger Games it's like when I was reading this book Hunger Games I literally like oh my God this person copied North Korea”
Discussed
“so the modern example that i found was actually the hunger games there is a capital and they divide 13 different districts they make everybody else out of the capital on verge of surviving”
Jack Posobiec and I think it actually is Suzanne Collins yeah I'm afraid the Hunger Games right 1
Discussed
“and I think it actually is Suzanne Collins yeah I'm afraid the Hunger Games right”
James Smith give me the hunger games give me something that is i'm gonna actually from a start there we cannot rely on… 1
Discussed
“give me the hunger games give me something that is i'm gonna actually from a start there we cannot rely on the educative system”
Sonal Chokshi you know like obvious examples include The Hunger Games with Katniss Everdeen the divergent series by Veron… 1
Discussed
“you know like obvious examples include The Hunger Games with Katniss Everdeen the divergent series by Veronica Roth”
Tim Pool millennials are like i read harry potter once and the hunger games i totally ruined harry potter form serio… 1
Critiqued
“millennials are like i read harry potter once and the hunger games i totally ruined harry potter form seriously”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“The Hunger Game series is a bit childish no disrespect but it's you know not meant to be the most sophisticated but it's fascinating how the the metaphor I'm not even just like the direct storyline is there's all these districts and they're from very poor to very rich and the capital does nothing”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (11: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“so they're the first three the trilogy Hunger Games Catching Fire mocking jay”
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“And you see, we—and the Hunger Games, we knew this because, living out there, we checked and we used apps and we searched on the internet and confirmed the edible sources.”
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“books like the Mary Trump the Stephanie Meyer which was sort of a surprise not not a surprise hit but it was announced and then quickly released John Bolton Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games author all those books have sold more than a million copies”
Passing
“so I ended up yeah I I ended up reading The Hunger Games in instead which is probably also like inappropriate”
Passing
“so this week we had a story written by Katie Rossman and myself about Scholastic which is the 100-year-old publisher behind books like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games and the baby bitters Club”
Passing
“and it seems like there's one of these movies every year I mean right now we had another Divergent movie came out last year was another Hunger Games”
Passing
“and it's you know before it was really driven I think by these big franchises by Harry Potter by Twilight and The Hunger Games”
Passing
“if they did make movies based on books it was always the big fantasy series like The Hunger Games books that um obviously that helps sales”
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“the other day i saw a car with a decent-sized hunger games mockingjay sticker and right underneath it they had a biden sticker”
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“the shirt I'm wearing right now is also my representation of our society and it has the hunger games animal animal farm they live brave new world matrix fahrenheit 451 v for vendetta and of course 1984 representing where i think we are”
Passing
“but when you look at movies like The Hunger Games or like you know Dawn of the Dead or something we don't take in consideration the you know the political alignment or like the the predictable behaviors of certain areas”