Episode 199 – The Door Into Fire
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
When we asked Chris Collision (cohost of I Don’t Even Own A Television) for his Flashback Summer choice of childhood favorite book, he surprised us with a title we’d never heard of before. And then Diane Duane surprised us with The Door Into Fire, a delightfully queer fantasy novel that was so great, we couldn’t believe we hadn’t heard of it before! Listen to this episode while riding your hot fire horse through the Waste.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Diane Duane’s Door Into Starlight Status Update
Coming up next: 200th Episode Dazzling Spectacular!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about flaming queer wizards so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:21.8 | And for this episode, we read The Door Into Fire by Diane Dwayne. |
| 0:26.6 | Joining us to discuss this extremely 70s fantasy novel is sexy unicorn enthusiast and co-hosts of I Don't Even Own a Television, a podcast about bad books, Chris Collision. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:41.9 | Thank you so much, and I'm so, so sorry. |
| 0:45.5 | No, nothing to apologize for. |
| 0:47.9 | I had a great time. |
| 0:49.8 | If you are just listening to this one and skipped our previous one, and you were wondering, |
| 0:55.6 | what about the other co-host of I don't even own a television? |
| 0:59.3 | Just scroll back in your podcast feed. |
| 1:02.0 | And we talked to Jay about the Westing game for that one. |
| 1:06.3 | Yes. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.9 | So Jay comes with a, you know, well-regarded mystery that, by all accounts, holds up to this day. |
| 1:15.7 | And I come with the super sexy unicorn stylings of early Diane Dwayne. |
| 1:22.0 | That's pretty on brand, I guess. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, I got to tell you, so for our flashback summer, we've mentioned it and some other episodes, |
| 1:29.7 | and sometimes we've forgotten to mention that it's Flashback Summer. But regardless, whether we said it or not, |
| 1:34.9 | it is Flashback Summer where we revisit, you know, older books that maybe aren't actually bad. And we've been saying |
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