Episode 02 – Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2014
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In our second episode of Worst Bestsellers, Kait, Renata, and their special guest Angie from Fat Girl Reading read Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, John Grisham’s weird attempt to tap the lucrative children’s book market. Listen to us wonder if John Grisham has interacted with anyone under the age of 18 in the last 20 years. For bonus points: count the number of times we call something “gross,” because this book was overall pretty dang gross.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: John Grisham: How Theodore Boone Came Into Being. (Spoiler: to spite J. K. Rowling.)
Candy pairing: Angie says wax lips, Kait says mini Mr. Goodbars, Renata says beer Jelly Bellies.
Coming up next: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about kid lawyer so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.2 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.0 | And this is the second episode of our podcast about books that you really probably shouldn't read. |
| 0:29.6 | Our guest today is librarian slash blogger, Angie. Hi, all. Hi. |
| 0:38.0 | And this time we've read a book called Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer, by John Grisham. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, that John Grisham, who apparently, I guess, decided. |
| 0:49.2 | I think actually I read a quote that he literally was like, J.K. Rowling knocked me off |
| 0:54.7 | the New York Times bestseller list |
| 0:57.5 | before they made a list specifically for kids. |
| 1:00.5 | So now I'm going to write a kid's book |
| 1:02.1 | so I can knock her off of it. |
| 1:04.1 | Like I think literally he wrote this book |
| 1:06.1 | or the people who write his books for him |
| 1:08.0 | wrote this book out of spite. |
| 1:10.0 | I was just going to say, I think all the best books are written out of spite. |
| 1:14.6 | I mean, I don't know who wrote this book, but there's a lot of spite to go around. |
| 1:20.1 | I can say that. |
| 1:21.6 | Right. |
| 1:22.0 | Okay. |
| 1:22.4 | So before we get too deep into it, let's, like, our quick plot summary, |
| 1:28.7 | Theodore Boone is obviously a kid lawyer. |
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