Episode 13 – Need for Speed
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2015
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their special guests Amanda and Christy read Need for Speed: The Movie Novelization by Brian Kelleher, a book based on a movie based on the video game based on the invention of the automobile. We originally read this book hoping that, like some of our favorite movie novelizations of years past, it would solve some of the lingering questions raised by the film, such as “Did that kid have psychic powers or what?” and “Was Aaron Paul’s character driven mad by solitary confinement, or just really bad at revenge?” Instead of answers, we found a confusing blend of Fast and the Furious fanfiction and Oz fanfiction, without any glossy photos of Aaron Paul enclosed to soothe our trauma. Listen now to hear four women who don’t know anything about cars lament just how hard it is to make a coherent storyline about street racing!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Need for Speed Book Club on Tumblr
Christy’s amazing excerpts from the Need for Speed audiobook
Candy pairing: Amanda says Warheads, Christy says Red Bull, Kait says Atomic Fireballs, Renata says banana Runts.
Coming up next: The Shunning by Beverly Lewis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read a book based on a movie, based on a video game, so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:23.7 | And for this movie, we read Need for Speed, |
| 0:32.0 | the Movie Novelization by Brian Kelleher. Joining us to discuss this delightful novel is Amanda, a librarian slash Aaron Paul enthusiast. Hello. As in my, by the way, both of those things. |
| 0:39.5 | And also, we're having two guests on this episode because we just have so much to talk about. |
| 0:45.8 | Also joining us is Christy, a struggling artist slash Breaking Bad Fanatic. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello. |
| 0:51.7 | Yay. |
| 0:52.5 | Christy, by the way, is also our first Canadian guest. |
| 0:55.0 | So we are international guys. |
| 0:58.0 | Wow. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay. |
| 1:00.0 | Before we even get started, I just want to offer up a little justification for why we're doing |
| 1:08.0 | this sort of random book. |
| 1:10.0 | First of all, sometimes people want to make suggestions or ask if we can do a book, |
| 1:17.0 | and then they say, I'm not sure it's actually a bestseller. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm fairly confident that Need for Speed is not actually a bestseller, |
| 1:24.3 | unless it's of a very specific subcategory. |
| 1:26.7 | Like, it's probably the bestselling book based like, book based on a movie based on a video game. |
| 1:32.0 | Although, I don't know. I don't know about that. Actually, yeah. I want to check that now. It's probably on the top 20, at least, of that. Yeah, probably. But to us, it's more, it's less, when we say bestseller it's less that we've actually like |
| 1:45.7 | check the NYT list and it's on there and more just like when we started this we didn't want it |
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