Episode 05 – Scavenger Hunt
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kait, Renata, and their guest Lisa struggle to piece together the clues of Christopher Pike’s Scavenger Hunt. As far as we can tell, it’s the story of a bunch of horny high school students on a scavenger hunt with their dead friend (who has been semi-reincarnated into the body of a brain-damaged football player). Did we mention that some of the high schoolers are secretly lizard people? Did we mention that the prize for winning the scavenger hunt is you get to be a human sacrifice for the aforementioned lizard people? Listen now and relive your misspent youth!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Forever Young Adult’s breakdown of Christopher Pike’s most commonly-used tropes
Candy pairing: Kait says candy necklaces, Renata says chocolate covered crickets.
Coming up next: Under the Radar by Fern Michaels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about secret lizard people so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.7 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.8 | And for this episode, we read Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike. |
| 0:23.5 | Joining us to discuss this work of fiction is Lisa, a noted Christopher Pike expert. Hello, Lisa. |
| 0:31.5 | Hi. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. All right. I'm going to jump in before we even talk about this and say that I think I might be the |
| 0:41.4 | only person in our age bracket who did not read any Christopher Pike books when I was younger. |
| 0:48.9 | This is the first one I've ever read and the only reason I can give for that is that I was |
| 0:53.7 | a woofie baby child and I was scared of just like the covers of these books |
| 0:57.6 | but I know a lot of other people have a lot of nostalgia for them such as |
| 1:02.1 | Kate and Lisa did the embossed boobs put you off as a teenager I was |
| 1:07.5 | frightened of how horny it made me. |
| 1:15.1 | I guess we should get into the plot summary, but yeah, we do really need to address this cover, |
| 1:19.9 | which I'll maybe post a picture because my cover is not the one that's on Amazon, and it is |
| 1:24.9 | insane. |
| 1:26.0 | It has like a disembodied hand and a lizard and a church |
| 1:30.6 | and a thoughtful looking guy covering his face in like a like very thoughtful pose. And then this |
| 1:37.6 | girl who is in a tank top and like her breasts are embossed. They're raised off the page and they're |
| 1:43.3 | huge. They have so much depths to them're raised off the page and they're huge. |
| 1:46.7 | They have so much depths to them. |
| 1:47.6 | And also her hair. |
| 1:49.7 | She has like huge embossed boobs and hair. |
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