Episode 40 – Twilight Life and Death
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2016
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
For this special episode, Kait, Renata, and their guests Amy (of Join the Girl Gang and Panels), Caroline (of Fantastic Fangirls and Panels), and Samuel (a dazzling youth) all read Twilight Life and Death, the 10th anniversary, gender-swapped edition of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. We broke down what we liked about the gender swapped version (Julie of the Werewolves) and what we didn’t (Jeremy is a real downgrade from Jessica) and attempted to unpack teenage sexuality in the world of the Twilight saga. Most importantly: Stephenie Meyer played The Rock, Paper, Snikt with us.
Spoiler warning: In this episode we briefly discussed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, just in case you haven’t seen it yet and are still concerned about spoilers.
Readers advisory: Twilight
Footnotes: Twilight vs. Life and Death: A sexy vampire glossary
Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy review
36 Ways Twilight changes when the genders are reversed
Twilight Wiki: Life and Death to Twilight Book Differences
Storytellers: New Voices of the Twilight Saga
oh my god, I can go on record saying that one difference between old and new twilight is @TheRock oh my god pic.twitter.com/azCqpn5EJL
— alexis nedd (@alexisthenedd) October 6, 2015
@alexisthenedd haha I would whistle at her…!!
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 6, 2015
Saw the new Twilight book.. just call me “The Whistler”;) https://t.co/BG6NnWgaMZ
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 7, 2015
Coming up next: Gerald’s Game by Stephen King.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about copy-paste-it sparkly vampires so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.8 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.1 | And for this episode, we read Twilight, Life and Death, Stephanie Meyer. |
| 0:24.3 | So this is going to be a slightly different episode than we would normally do, which, sorry, |
| 0:28.9 | that makes it now four weird episodes in a row, but what can you do? |
| 0:33.6 | We're experimental. We're like cereal. |
| 0:37.2 | Okay. We're exactly like cereal're like cereal. Okay. |
| 0:39.3 | We're exactly like cereal. Let's move on. |
| 0:44.0 | To all of our millions of listeners who know that we're exactly like serial. |
| 0:50.0 | So instead of doing our usual book report where we talk about the plot and then playing our |
| 0:55.3 | usual games and having a guest on to discuss it without throughout, since we already |
| 1:00.9 | covered the bulk of the plot of this book when we talked about Twilight and we've now done |
| 1:06.3 | two episodes completely devoted to Twilight, we figured we would skip that and do sort of an |
| 1:12.1 | abbreviated version. And instead, Renata and I are going to talk a little bit about the book. |
| 1:17.1 | And then later on, we're going to bring in some guests to answer some very specific |
| 1:21.2 | discussion questions. By the way, if you somehow have not heard of Twilight Life and Death, |
| 1:27.3 | which if you're listening to this, you probably have, because when it was announced, we got like 100 tweets about it. |
| 1:32.3 | But if you did not, which is great, by the way, I'm not complaining. |
| 1:35.3 | Please tweet at us about all Twilight News. |
| 1:37.4 | Twilight Life and Death is the 10th anniversary edition of Twilight, which is a gender-swapped version of Twilight, |
| 1:48.1 | where instead of Bella the human falling in love with Edward the vampire, |
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