Welcome to worst bestsellers where we read about Dan Brown's Wikipedia K-hole so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.

Joining us to discuss this Robert Langdon thriller is Dr. Sarah Bay, woman in stem.

Hello. Hi, Sarah. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks. As always, such a pleasure to be here.

Less of a pleasure earning the right to be here by reading a book. However.

I was about to say, is it really a pleasure that we had to read this book?

Well, you know what? We should say, yeah, this was our patron choice book of the year.

Our beloved patron patrons had a highly democratic election and chose this for us to read.

And I got to say, there's worse stuff that was on that list.

So thank you.

And thank you, as always, for being our beloved patrons.

Yes, we do appreciate you, even though this book was like 24 hours long.

Yeah, unfortunately, I did read 14 or listen to 14 Robert Jordan books earlier this year.

So this one flew by for me, but that is, again, only in comparison.

So thank you, patrons.

Thank you for your patronage.

Thank you for selecting this title for us to read.

It is. It's the second Robert Langdon book we've read for the podcast. Yeah. And if you're like Robert Langdon, that sounds sort of familiar. Like, that's the guy from

Da Vinci Code. That's like Dan Brown's guy. It's a special little symbolologist guy. Yes,

one of Dan Brown's favorite hobbies is making up areas of academic study.

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