Episode 166 – The Big Sleep
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
You’re not dreaming–we did read a bestseller that’s widely considered to be “good,” The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. We teamed up with Amanda and Geoffrey from the podcast Dirt Cheap to investigate: is it actually a good book? Who is the murderer? Where can a guy find some good pornographic material in this town? Listen to this episode on your next stakeout!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about the perils of pornography so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.4 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.5 | And for this episode, we read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. |
| 0:23.1 | Joining us to discuss this classic hard-boiled detective story are Amanda Meadows and Jeffrey |
| 0:28.4 | Golden, co-hosts of the podcast, Dirt Cheap. |
| 0:31.9 | Hi. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi. |
| 0:33.5 | Hello. |
| 0:34.9 | Hello there, dames. |
| 0:42.6 | What brings you to a joint like this? |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, but I should say that some of you might be doing a little double take at us doing the big sleep. |
| 0:56.7 | And you're like, I thought that was a good book. |
| 0:58.7 | I thought, you guys do bad books. |
| 1:01.8 | And first of all, you're not the boss of us, listeners. |
| 1:03.6 | We'll do what we want. |
| 1:04.6 | We're independent dames. |
| 1:14.6 | Second of all, I didn't think this book was as good as that it should be on Times top 100 novels but we'll get into that third of all as we've just said Amanda and Jeffrey are co-hosts of the podcast Dirt Sheep |
| 1:21.7 | and so they've been exploring a less classic noir hard-boiled detective story. |
| 1:29.9 | That's very generous. |
| 1:31.0 | That's very... |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, it's not quite a hidden gem. |
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