Episode 132 – Divergent

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Divergent by Veronica Roth, a dystopian society controlled by Buzzfeed quizzes, has been one of most frequently-requested episodes. In an effort to bring peace to the five factions, we invited Annie, author of The Chance You Won't Return and cohost of the Crossover Appeal podcast to read this flash-in-the-pan dystopian novel with us. Listen to this episode on your next trip to Chicago--just make sure to be careful when jumping off the El train!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the most extreme sorting hat so you don't have to.
0:16.6	I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Divergent by Veronica Roth.
0:22.8	Joining us to discuss this dystopian buzzfeed quiz is YA author and gift connoisseur Annie Cardi.
0:30.3	Hey.
0:31.3	Hello.
0:32.1	Thank you for joining us, Annie.
0:33.9	We're very excited to have you.
0:35.4	Thank you.
0:36.0	I am so excited to be here. We're excited to have you. Thank you. I am so excited to be here.
0:38.3	We're excited to have you.
0:39.6	Annie didn't mention in her introduction that she's also a podcaster.
0:44.2	Yes.
0:45.2	You're allowed to plug that.
0:46.8	I'll do it for you.
0:48.1	Thank you.
0:50.6	We also, we don't, we haven't had any new episodes in a little while because we have a tiny human.
0:55.8	But yeah, we have several back episodes of crossover appeal that people can take a listen to.
1:01.9	Yeah, you know what, dig into a back catalog of a podcast if you haven't already.
1:06.1	Right.
1:07.5	Okay.
1:08.3	Anyway, so Divergent, this has been an oft-requested book. Um, when we had our 100th episode, we ran a poll for what book we would read. And, uh, ready player one, one, which means that we lost. But this was a very close second. And we're like, oh, we'll do that one too.
1:27.6	And then here we are on 32 episodes later, getting around to it.
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