Episode 133 – The Host

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Unlike vampires, we keep aging, so this is our 5th podcastversary! Tragically, we've completed our run on the Twilight saga, but the show must go on. We brought back returning guest Caroline to discuss Stephenie Meyer's awkward alien follow-up to the Twilight saga, The Host. Bad news: it's not as entertaining as Twilight. Good news: she never followed through on making this a trilogy. As you listen to this episode, please join us in using The Secret to compel Stephenie Meyer to write another vampire book for next year!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the fifth anniversary of worst bestsellers, where we read about vampire aliens so you don't have to.
0:19.1	I'm Renata.
0:20.3	And I'm Kate.
0:21.5	And for this episode, we read The Host by Stephanie Meyer.
0:26.1	Joining us to discuss this non-dazzling follow-up to the Twilight Saga is Caroline,
0:32.5	Xenomorth enthusiasts and compulsive do-gooder.
0:35.7	Hello.
0:36.8	Welcome back.
0:38.5	It's great to talk to you about Stephanie Myers' novels again.
0:42.3	Yes.
0:42.8	If you are new to worst bestsellers and for some reason are starting here, great, welcome.
0:50.4	But our very first episode was Twilight and Caroline was our very first guest. And since then,
0:57.8	every year on our anniversary, we've read a new book in the Twilight saga. Except last year.
1:03.8	We ran out of Twilight and we made our own Twilight book with help from our friend Danielle,
1:08.8	who led us in a Twilight RPG,
1:11.8	which is very funny.
1:12.8	You should check that out too.
1:14.4	And now we are circling back to read The Host by Stephanie Meyer,
1:20.1	which we'd been sort of delaying for a lot of reasons.
1:25.4	Mainly it's not as fun or good as Twilight,
1:29.5	which I, very quickly, I will summarize,
1:33.9	I was introduced to the Twilight saga when I was in the Peace Corps,
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