Episode 29 – Grey
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
By popular demand, Kait, Renata, and returning guest Anna of Bellwether Friends read Grey by E. L. James. It’s Fifty Shades of Grey from the point of view of Christian Grey and his talkative cock. We went on record as… well, not quite fans of the original book, but we didn’t hate it. Unfortunately, Christian’s POV made us long for Ana’s inner goddess. If you take a drink every time we say the word “gross” in this episode, you’ll be very well-hydrated!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Anna’s Fifty Shades Readalikes Project
In Defense of Fifty Shades of Grey (Sort Of)
All the Things Christian Grey’s Cock Gets Up to in the New Fifty Shades
An Epic Chart of 162 YA Retellings
Only Your Housekeeper Knows For Sure
Candy pairing: Anna says ABC gum, Kait says generic Valentine’s chocolates (forgotten at the bottom of a purse), Renata says apples.
Coming up next: Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we re-read about non-legally binding sex paperwork so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:21.4 | And for this episode, we read Gray by E.L. James. |
| 0:25.8 | Joining us to discuss this reheated garbage is Anna from Bellwether Friends. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah, welcome back, Anna. |
| 0:34.0 | It's great to be here again. |
| 0:37.7 | We promise that the next time you come on, you don't have to read a 50 Shades-related thing. |
| 0:45.3 | Oh, thank God. |
| 0:46.6 | But what if she writes another one from the housekeeper's perspective? |
| 0:50.5 | I would read that. |
| 0:51.7 | I would too. |
| 0:52.5 | Or from Roz's perspective? What if Roz and the housekeeper tag teamed on that? |
| 0:57.6 | Or Mrs. Robinson. Oh, that would be actually interesting. She would probably be pretty snotty, I imagine. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, I'd be into that. Just in case you did not listen to either of our 50 Shades episodes actually we have discussed |
| 1:14.0 | the first book we've discussed the movie and now we are back for gray which if you hadn't |
| 1:20.1 | heard about it is a retelling of the first 50 Shades of Gray book but from Christian's point of |
| 1:26.1 | view in the style of how Midnight Sun, but from Christian's point of view, in the style of how Midnight |
| 1:29.1 | Sun was Twilight from Edwards' point of view. |
| 1:32.3 | Interestingly enough, we say we talked about the book and we talked about the movie, but |
| 1:37.1 | what we actually talked about during both of those episodes was more about the policing |
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