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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 12 – Outlander

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2015

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Ring in the new year–1743–with Kait, Renata, and their guest lassie Erica! We read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and we learned so much about British history, medicinal herbs, corporal punishment, witchcraft, animal husbandry, the Loch Ness Monster, and many other sexy topics. Sync your MP3 player to your nearest henge to listen now!

Content warning: Outlander contains sexual assault and we discuss it in this episode.

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: Objectified Scotsman Thursday.

Diana Gabaldon Fanlore

Diana Gabaldon on her Doctor Who inspiration

Candy pairing: Erica says mixed bags of Halloween candy,  Kait says beef jerky (or herbs), Renata says Everlasting Gobstoppers.

Coming up next: Need for Speed: the Movie Novelization by Brian Kelleher.

 

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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the worst best

0:12.4

where we read about sexy Scottish time travel so you don't have to.

0:17.0

I'm Kate.

0:18.0

And I'm Renata.

0:19.4

And for this episode, we've read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

0:24.4

joining us for this episode is Erica who hangs out a lot on the internet hi Erica

0:31.1

well I guess first off I should start off by saying that if you're listening to this on

0:36.9

Monday January 5th,

0:38.6

you should know that we posted two special year-end episodes over the weekend on January 3rd and

0:45.4

4th. There are best and worst of 2014, and they should be up on the website and available

0:51.4

in iTunes and Stitcher if you want to hear us literally cry over

0:56.2

books and talk about how we used to literally cry over documentaries. That, that to me feels

1:02.3

like it was 200 years ago because of how long it took me to read Outlanders. I feel as though

1:09.3

I time traveled 200 years into the future and I spent all of those years trying to get through this book.

1:16.4

Oh my God.

1:17.7

Kate was going to say this was a book that we read and it really is more like five books we read.

1:23.2

That's true.

1:24.2

Yeah, because they were like part one, this part five.

1:28.8

I forget they all have sort of dramatic names. A whiff of brimstone. Thank you. Yes. Like that. But they all also like

1:36.2

didn't relate to each other at all, which is what was so frustrating to me. Like with the exception

1:41.8

of one recurring plot line about this, like, rapy British general,

1:47.1

nothing that happened in each of the prior sections had much, you know,

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