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Ep 607 - Slammed, by Colleen Hoover (w/ The Worst Bestsellers)

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Our friends Renata and Kait are back to talk with us about Colleen Hoover and her debut novel Slammed. We dive into her recent reign as Queen of BookTok, the appeal of slam poetry, the lack of dads, and whether or not this work of New Adult Fiction worked for us.

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0:00.0

This episode of Over-Due contains adult language.

0:10.6

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told

0:15.0

tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:20.8

Plus these are books you should have read by now.

0:46.6

Hey everybody welcome to Over-Due. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning

0:50.8

to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. Slam. You feel slammed? I do. I do in fact

1:00.8

feel slammed. Talking into my microphone and fatically. Though I guess it's becoming

1:08.2

a little bit of a shatter thing, so maybe I should be happy. Well funny you should

1:12.3

say that I did read a What's Wrong with Slam Voice article that did talk about Shatton

1:17.8

or Esk Delivery. What we have guests here from The Worst Best Sellers. Ron Kay, thanks

1:23.8

for being back on the show. Where you're welcome. I would say we're happy to be here. Cosmically

1:33.2

we're happy to be here with you. In the actual technical aspects of having to read this

1:39.5

book in order to be here with you. I have some complaints. We brought it on our

1:44.9

song. Okay last time we were here we're like wow what a treat. We get to read a good book

1:49.6

as a treat because normally for our podcast we pretty much only read bad books and last

1:54.1

time we came to Over-Due we read Becky Chambers and we're like wow what a treat. And then

1:58.7

this time you were like well we haven't done Colleen Hoover yet and I was like well we

2:04.8

have and I still feel like I don't really understand Colleen Hoover so I kind of want to

2:09.6

read a different one to see if I can be the crack at really understanding where her appeal is

2:15.7

and I don't still. Yeah it's we can talk more about this as we talk about Colleen Hoover

2:24.1

herself and what her whole deal is. The likelihood that you've heard of us and not of hers pretty small

2:30.4

so I'm just yeah that's true but yeah like she's writing books for hyper earnest romance fans

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