Episode 193 – The Maze Runner
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Every once in awhile it’s nice to read something that’s so bad it truly reminds us why we do what we do. We were joined by Rachel Andelman (of Union Comedy, Improv Boston, 2MB Studios, and Smiling Women Comix) to discuss The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Listen to this episode on your next long, pointless run!
Content warning: It turns out that James Dashner was dropped by his agent and publisher following accusations of sexual harassment in 2018 and we didn’t find that out until we checked his wiki page at the very end of recording, so sorry for not mentioning that earlier in the episode!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Dylan O’Brien Is Ready to Talk About That Accident” by Kyle Buchanan
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Coming up next: The Witcher: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about World in Catastrophe, Kill Zone Experiment Department, so you don't have to. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:23.4 | And for this episode, we read The Maze Runner by James Dashner. |
| 0:28.1 | Joining us to discuss this piece of clunk YA novel is Rachel, a performer at Union Comedy, |
| 0:35.6 | a teacher at Improv Boston, a producer of the Twitch Channel 2MB Studios, |
| 0:41.2 | who also has a Patreon for her comic strips called Smiling Women Comics with an X. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 0:48.1 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:51.7 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:53.1 | Sorry, you had to read this. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.7 | No, I can honestly say this is the most work I've ever done for a podcast. |
| 1:00.2 | So I'm just really excited to, I feel very accomplished, like the way like Hercules |
| 1:05.8 | probably felt when he cleaned out all those stalls. |
| 1:09.7 | Yes. |
| 1:11.8 | Yes, like a real good sloppor. when he cleaned out all those stalls. Yes. Yes. |
| 1:12.4 | Like a real good slopper. |
| 1:15.1 | There's too much. |
| 1:16.0 | I think you have something like that. |
| 1:18.0 | There's too much. |
| 1:19.3 | Too many made up words in this book. |
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