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Hunger Games 4-Book Hardcover Box Set (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes)

Suzanne Collins

This beautiful hardcover box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collins's internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy together with

Podcasts 32
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Timcast IRL

The host used The Hunger Games as an example of how the world may look at the US as villainous, gluttonous, and ignorant to the struggles of others.

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But then I'm like, eh, I'm talking from my perspective as an American. Like if you saw the Hunger Games-

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The host used The Hunger Games as an example of how the world may look at the US as villainous, gluttonous, and ignorant to the struggles of others.

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But then I'm like, eh, I'm talking from my perspective as an American. Like if you saw the Hunger Games-

I feel that way too though. Like why would you wanna destroy everything? And humanity is so beautiful. Cause you know the, did you see the Hunger Games?

The Dan Patrick Show

In a single episode, Jonas Knox briefly referenced the title while likening a participant to a character from the story. The comment was a fleeting comparison rather than a recommendation, and no detailed discussion of the book's content occurred. The overall tone was light‑hearted and casual.

Episode: Hour 2: Coach Calipari Goes Off

They compared a participant to the guy from The Hunger Games, describing him as resembling the character from the story.

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Damn! Damn! Come on, it looks like the guy from the Hunger Games. Damn! You're the ugly of the week.

The NPR Politics Podcast

During the episode the hosts referenced the book as a comparison to a proposed reality‑show concept for undocumented immigrants, noting its dystopian feel and how public sentiment could turn against such a premise. Domenico Montanaro made the analogy, highlighting the parallels to the story’s themes.

Episode: Roundup: Trump visits the Middle East

The hosts likened a proposed realityshow pitch for undocumented immigrants to the premise of "The Hunger Games," noting the dystopian analogy while discussing the idea.

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Yeah, you can't help but think of like Hunger Games or Squid Games.

It does actually kind of feel like a thing that could backfire... the Hunger Games is like once the public got to know these characters, they didn't actually want them to go like do all this bad stuff to each other.

The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya

The book was referenced in three episodes, with Katya using it to illustrate a two‑week starving period omitted from the film adaptation, Sarah noting it as the lightest thing she’d read that year and admitting she read it because everyone expected her to, and Alexis citing its portrayal of an upper‑class with facial implants as inspiration for a makeup look. The hosts treated it as a cultural touchstone rather than a strong endorsement.

Episode: A Sizzling Summer Reading List with Sarah Schauer...

The speaker mentioned that it was the lightest book they had read this year, but admitted they had read it because they felt they had to, and were happy to be able to participate in the fan community online.

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I would say the lightest thing that I've read is probably the newest Hunger Games.

Okay, but that's because everyone was like you got to read it and I did and they were like dude you did it.

Episode: Building a Fake Hospital in Your House with Alexis...

The books' depiction of the upper class with facial implants and a feline-like appearance was mentioned as inspiration for Alexis Stone's makeup look. It was described as representing a particular idea of beauty at a specific time in Alexis' life.

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In the hunger games books, the upper class have like implants and they look almost feline.

Episode: How to Use Double Entendres with Trixie and Katya

The book was mentioned in comparison to *Misery* because the book included a two-week period where the main character almost starved, which was omitted from the adaptation.

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Kind of like in the Hunger Games. She's in the Hunger Games. She, there's like a whole two weeks they don't show where she almost starves. So they don't eat in the Hunger Games.

Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield

Tana mentioned how she really wanted to meet Rachel Zegler, who played the role of Lucy Gray Baird in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', at the People's Choice Awards.

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So I think she was probably just like what the fuck is Rachel doing with Bryce Hall, but the thing is is people's choices, like people's choice. It's about pop culture. Yeah, which does involve and it...

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Tana mentioned how she really wanted to meet Rachel Zegler, who played the role of Lucy Gray Baird in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', at the People's Choice Awards.

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So I think she was probably just like what the fuck is Rachel doing with Bryce Hall, but the thing is is people's choices, like people's choice. It's about pop culture. Yeah, which does involve and it like brings the numbers up, right? Like a lot of the most viewed glam bots and different things were influencers of you that I think the most viewed Lambo that they posted was you, if that's true that's such a lie.

You think he'd be more in like our area. Like I thought he would do a little closer to Bryce and that's what she said. So I think she was probably just like what the fuck is Rachel doing with Bryce Hall.

He was with Rachel's egg like he was literally at the Hunger Games table and I kept thinking myself like how the fuck did he end up there not no shade to Bryce Hall, but like Hunger Games.

And I lost, yes, I was like that was my mission of the night was like I have to meet Rachel. You were being so funny, you were like going on and on and on about the Hungry Ames and how much you love the Hungry Ames and Brianna chicken fry was like she said something to you. Don't me, I don't like musicals, I said your life is a fucking musical like you popped on her for a second. I was like, no, I mean, you don't like musicals you're dating the songbird of our generation. They're so cute. They are, but doesn't matter. All I wanted to do with meet Rachel, and I made it my life's mission, and I looked for her every like every single break that would be you, there's like 30 seconds that you can like walk around and then you have to sit down or someone takes your seat at the people's choice awards just trying so hard to meet her and then I was like, oh I just give it up, and low in the hold at the after party I'm standing next to the chicken sliders and she's just wandering around alone. Well, not alone with her boyfriend, her also very talented boyfriend, who plays Syjaneis in Hunger Games, oh my god, I had to, I went up to them and they were so fucking nice and I was like that is absolutely amazing. I do love that we did I'm spending like our entire night at the people's choice awards with Natasha betting field which was so iconic.

Oh my god, I had to, I went up to them and they were so fucking nice and I was like that is absolutely amazing. I do love that we did. I'm spending like our entire night at the people's choice awards with Natasha betting field which was so iconic.

The Bobby Bones Show

The title was repeatedly highlighted across episodes, with Mike D and Bobby Bones stating they loved the series and found the books superior to the movies. Trivia segments frequently used it as a reference point, and listeners like Lunchbox and Amy echoed the enthusiasm, noting the engaging story and enjoying both the books and film adaptations. Overall, the hosts and guests conveyed strong approval of the series.

Highly Recommended

Episode: Best Bits: Listener Q&A With Morgan and Mike D

Mike D said he read every book in this series and loved them all, he found the movies were visually connected to the books, but he felt the books were better than the movies.

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But the one book series that I read every single book devoured and loved all the movies was The Hunger Games.

I do feel like they were really great visually like connected with the book.

And that was the only time I've ever said that the book was better than the movie. Because there's just so much more in that world when you read those books than what happened in the movie, especially because in the first one, they didn't have the budget, I feel, to make that movie the best they could have.

Later, they got a little bit more money and they were able to look a little bit better. But I just felt there was so much more in that first book that I was like, oh man, it did really live up to my expectations.

Episode: Thurs Full Show: Eddie’s Shoes Mystery Solved! + D...

Lunchbox was asked the name of Josh Hutcherson's character in the film adaptation of this book; he answered correctly, naming the character 'Peeta'. The discussion then shifted to the film's production, referencing the experience as 'stupid' and mentioning that people were 'banging on the windows'.

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What was the name of actor Josh Hutcherson's character in The Hunger Games?

Peter.

That's because Amy made us film the stupid Hunger Games.

Let's just say people were banging on the windows.

Episode: Thurs Early Bird: Eddie's Missing Shoes Drama + El...

The podcast mentioned the book, *The Hunger Games*, in a trivia question. Lunchbox correctly answered that Josh Hutcherson's character was named Peeta.

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Lunchbox, what was the name of actor Josh Hutcherson's character in The Hunger Games?

Peter?

Correct

Episode: (Tues Early Bird) Amy Snapped On Her Kids + How Ab...

Bobby Bones said he loved this book and thought it was awesome.

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I read Hunger Games I loved it is awesome. So good

Episode: (Fri Full Show) Toby Keith Shares Update on His He...

This young adult dystopian book series, by Suzanne Collins, was accurately identified in a trivia game segment as having been adapted into a movie series.

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Suzanne Collins is the author of what young adult dystopian book series turned movies in the 2010s?

Has to be Hunger Games

Episode: (Wed Full Show) The Full 12 Days of Bobby Bones Sh...

Amy saw the movie adaptation and remembered reading the book a few years prior, but she enjoyed the movie regardless of her prior familiarity with the source material.

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So I finally went to the theater and saw the ballad of songbirds and snakes, which is the Humber Games sequel. And I read the book in 2020, but I guess you know 2020, 2021. It's all blur.

So that was good though, because I didn't have that feeling of like, oh, the book is so much better, you know? I just thought it was amazing and awesome and I would watch it again and I give it five songbirds out of five.

Episode: (Wed Early Bird) What Was Eddie Accused Of Stealin...

A listener saw the movie adaptation and recalled reading the book a couple of years prior; they enjoyed both and thought the movie was amazing.

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I finally went to the theater and saw the ballad of songbirds and snakes, which is the Hunger Games. Yeah. Requel. And I read the book in 2020.

But I guess you know, 2021. It's all blur. Yeah, it's all like, it's not real. I don't really even, I didn't remember much. So that was good though, because I didn't have that feeling of like, oh, the book is so much better.

You know, I just thought it was amazing and awesome. And I would watch it again and I give it five songbirds out of five.

Episode: (Mon Full Show) Someone Spills The Tea on Abby & T...

Amy mentioned this book, a prequel to the Hunger Games series, which provides backstory on President Snow.

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I saw the Hunger Games prequels coming out uh because we don't know what happened in the prequel because it wasn't in the books it's called birds and snakes or something yeah but I feel like I read that book but you read birds and snakes I don't think they wrote a prequel birds and bees they did yeah since the movie that's coming out yeah I didn't know they had a book yeah it gives you more a look into president snow like as he was growing up and why he is the way he is

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The podcast mentioned this popular young adult book series, where tributes fight to the death in a televised competition. It was correctly identified during a trivia segment.

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What popular young adult book series sends tributes to participate in a televised competition in which they fight to the death?

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This popular young adult book series was mentioned in a trivia question, highlighting the televised competition and deadly fight to the death.

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what popular young adult book series sends tributes to participate in a televised competition in which they fight to the death?

Hunger Games

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

The Hunger Games books were mentioned, and one of the hosts had not read them, but a producer had read all three.

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I have not read The Hunger Games books or seen The Hunger Games movies.

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The Hunger Games books were mentioned, and one of the hosts had not read them, but a producer had read all three.

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I have not read The Hunger Games books or seen The Hunger Games movies.

Producer Allie read all three Hunger Games books.

I guess they are good.

This Is Important

The podcasters briefly mentioned the book series, as they initially misheard another phrase for it and related it to the caramel topic.

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The Never Games. The Hunger Games.

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Episode: The Pleasure Is Ours: "Don't Bite Off More Than Yo...

The podcasters briefly mentioned the book series, as they initially misheard another phrase for it and related it to the caramel topic.

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The Never Games. The Hunger Games.

On with Kara Swisher

It's a bestselling memoir that was mentioned in passing when discussing other books that Roxane Gay has written.

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She has published more than a dozen books, non-fiction and fiction, which span from her bestselling memoir Hunger to the Marvel comic series World of Wakanda.

— Episode: Roxane Gay on Guns, Kamala & Media

Episode: Roxane Gay on Guns, Kamala & Media

It's a bestselling memoir that was mentioned in passing when discussing other books that Roxane Gay has written.

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She has published more than a dozen books, non-fiction and fiction, which span from her bestselling memoir Hunger to the Marvel comic series World of Wakanda.

Untraditionally Lala

The hosts compared the reality TV voting dynamic to a Hunger Games scenario, describing contestants being thrown on an island and forced to follow producers' whims.

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It was Hunger Games for all of us to just like throw them on an island and just say we will have them do this now let's make the weather this way let's do this like it was Hunger Gameish of like how c...

— Episode: BONUS: Summer Flings & Fails and Love Is...

Episode: BONUS: Summer Flings & Fails and Love Island

The hosts compared the reality TV voting dynamic to a Hunger Games scenario, describing contestants being thrown on an island and forced to follow producers' whims.

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It was Hunger Games for all of us to just like throw them on an island and just say we will have them do this now let's make the weather this way let's do this like it was Hunger Gameish of like how can we have more of a say and that's why these watch parties started going because all of you started voting.

Chuckle Sandwich

Connor mentioned enjoying the Hunger Games books when he was younger, suggesting they were a favorite read during that period.

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I've been starting to like read again. I think it like helps my head a little bit, but uh when I was younger. I love the hunger games books

— Episode: ConnorEatsPants

Episode: ConnorEatsPants

Connor mentioned enjoying the Hunger Games books when he was younger, suggesting they were a favorite read during that period.

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I've been starting to like read again. I think it like helps my head a little bit, but uh when I was younger. I love the hunger games books

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

The hosts likened the internal turmoil of the Panthers organization to the Hunger Games, saying it felt like a reallife version of the novel.

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the Hunger Games of the NFL, which even if you didn't watch the Hunger Games in the movie theater, you would have seen it on television.

— Episode: 3 and Out - Aaron Rodgers Speaks, Zach W...

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The hosts likened the internal turmoil of the Panthers organization to the Hunger Games, saying it felt like a reallife version of the novel.

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the Hunger Games of the NFL, which even if you didn't watch the Hunger Games in the movie theater, you would have seen it on television.

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