Episode 100 – Ready Player One
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
It’s our 100th episode! Kait, Renata, and their editor Becca have been studying up on our bad book trivia for years to be able to process Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This has been one of our most-requested books over the years, so we weren’t surprised when it won our listener poll for the 100th episode. We were surprised by how it was almost exactly like all the parodies of it we saw on Twitter. Thanks to all our listeners for helping us make it to 100 episodes! We love you all so much we want to stand in your yards and play this episode on a boombox.
Readers advisory: Here.
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Candy pairing: Becca says Skittles, Kait says Airheads, Renata says the description of a sugar molecule.
Coming up next: The Ghost in the Third Row by Bruce Coville.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Ernest Klein's favorite things so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.3 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.5 | And for this episode, we read Ready Player 1 by Ernest Klein. |
| 0:23.0 | Joining us to discuss this gatekeeping gamer glop is Becca's avatar, with beautiful red hair and starry violet eyes, |
| 0:30.3 | and definitely not a 300-pound man named Chuck, but if it was, that would still be okay. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello. Hey, Becca. Or hello. |
| 0:39.8 | Becca, you sound so beautiful. |
| 0:42.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:44.5 | So this is our 100th episode, which is weird, but here we are. |
| 0:51.0 | That's such a stirring celebration. |
| 0:58.4 | We've had a major milestone that's weird that's weird we're celebrating it on a Monday night minimal drinking |
| 1:04.3 | celebrating it on Monday night with a shitty book which is actually pretty on brand I mean |
| 1:10.3 | that's I mean that's our M-O that is literally what you signed up for I don. I mean, that's, I mean, that's our MO. |
| 1:11.3 | That is literally what you signed up for. |
| 1:12.8 | I don't, I don't know how to help you with that. |
| 1:15.5 | This shitty book specifically was chosen by a poll from our listeners. |
| 1:20.6 | So thank you. |
| 1:24.1 | Or. |
| 1:25.1 | Fuck you. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | I mean, thank you for listening. Thank you for not choosing other poll options. He is just not that into you. It was the one I least wanted to read. And then it got the lowest number of votes. So you guys crushed it in that front. Thank you. I don't know what daddy's about, but also just seeing that, I was like, no. |
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