Episode 254 – Uglies
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On occasion, listeners have suggested Uglies by Scott Westerfeld as a Flashback Summer title, but since we’re all Crumblies here, we were full adults when this contemporary classic YA dystopian novel was released. Our book club hostess/cult leader Grace joined us to discuss this book that some of us think deserves Best Bestseller status. Listen to this episode while waiting for your SpagBol to cook!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Laverne Cox Talks Pretty Privilege And ‘UGLIES’ Role” by Janeé Bolden
Coming up next: The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Spag Ball so you don't have to. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:15.9 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.3 | And for this episode, we read Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. |
| 0:20.9 | Joining us to discuss this bubbly Y-A dystopia is Grace, an old ugly who isn't allowed out in public but has always wanted to hoverboard with the cool kids. |
| 0:29.5 | Hi. |
| 0:30.4 | Hi, Grace. |
| 0:31.8 | Thank you for having me back. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, welcome back. Grace is one is one of our Captain Colt sisters. |
| 0:39.6 | And we're all going to be to talk to her. |
| 0:42.3 | Yes. |
| 0:43.2 | And that may or may not come up during this. |
| 0:46.3 | I can make a cult out. I can make a cult out of anything. |
| 0:53.6 | Okay. So before we get too deep into this, hello, this is the first episode we're recording after the results of America's 2024 election. |
| 1:06.6 | And we know that a lot of people like to listen to our podcast as a distraction for when things |
| 1:14.3 | are hard. |
| 1:15.0 | And that's great. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm really genuinely honored to have that role in people's lives because we all need |
| 1:21.9 | our little distractions to keep on, keep it on. |
| 1:28.7 | So we're not really going to talk about that too much, |
| 1:30.5 | but that's just like the context in which we're recording this episode. |
| 1:33.6 | And also we just want to say, it feels bad. |
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