Episode 173 – The Courtship Of Princess Leia
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
We’re kicking off Flashback Summer by going to a galaxy far, far away and a long time ago. We read the non-canonical Star Wars Legends novel The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton with Star Wars Enthusiast Zayne. If you’re a Star Wars fan of a certain vintage, you might be grimacing with recognition here. If you haven’t heard of this book, you might be thinking it would be nice to see Han and Leia’s courtship and marriage. Unfortunately: it isn’t. It isn’t nice at all. If you ask your 3PO unit nicely, perhaps they will play this episode over their speakers for you.
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Footnotes: Star Wars Legends
“Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’?” by Akemi Johnson
Coming up next: Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #2: Baby-sitters’ Summer Vacation! by Ann M. Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about a love triangle in space, so you don't have to. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Renata. And I'm Kate. And for this episode, |
| 0:30.8 | we read The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton. Joining us to discuss this no longer canonical Star Wars novel is Zane, nerd, fan fiction author, and self-proclaimed Star Wars enthusiast. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, Zane. |
| 0:40.2 | Hello, I'm excited to be here today. |
| 0:42.9 | We're excited to talk to you, slightly less excited about this book, but that's how it goes on this podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | That's life. |
| 0:51.8 | That's the hobby that we've chosen to do in our downtime. Yeah, this is what we're doing with our wild and precious life. That's the hobby that we've chosen to do in our downtime. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, this is what we're doing with our wild and precious life. |
| 0:59.5 | This is the start of our flashback summer season, where traditionally we go back and revisit |
| 1:06.0 | childhood favorites. And the main purpose of flashback Summer has been for it to be sort of |
| 1:13.0 | like fun and short books that maybe we have positive feelings about. And we kind of flunked Flashback |
| 1:20.0 | Summer actually on this one. Yeah. It reminded me actually of like, I mean, it was less, |
| 1:27.0 | it was slightly less tedious to me, but when we did the other X-Files novel last summer, and it was like, oh, yeah, this is a very long book that's not as much about Mulder and Scully as anyone would like. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.3 | I apologize. |
| 1:40.7 | I 100% did remember how long and bad this was. And I volunteered anyway. |
| 1:45.6 | That's fine. It's fine. The weird thing about it to me is that like looking at number wise, |
| 1:51.9 | it is not, well, okay, so part of what the problem is there is no audiobook of this. So I had to |
| 1:56.0 | read it with my eyes and we all know how much I hate that. But also, like it felt, I think that the reason why it felt so long to me is because |
| 2:04.8 | it was about characters that I love, but they were all behaving wildly out of character |
| 2:11.0 | and badly. |
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