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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 71 – The Shack

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Shack by William Paul Young

 

Kait, Renata, and their guest Dolly (@loather, Withdrawn) read The Shack by William Paul Young. It’s about a man who meets God, but get this, God is a black woman who wants you to call her “Papa”! Did that blow your mind? Don’t worry, God turns back into a man when times get really tough. Please listen to this episode on your next drive out into the middle of nowhere!

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: ‘I Have Deep Regrets’: Graphic Artist Who Designed ‘Shack’ Novel Renounces Book

This American Life #304: Heretics

The Shack (2017) on IMDB

Candy pairing:  Dolly says Peeps Oreos, Kait says a chocolate cross, Renata says Cadbury Creme eggs.

Coming up next: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.

 

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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about God's sadness cave so you don't have to.

0:18.0

I'm Renata.

0:19.1

And I'm Kate.

0:20.2

And for this episode, we read The Shack by William Young.

0:24.6

Joining us to discuss where tragedy confronts eternity is writer and librarian Dolly.

0:30.7

Hello.

0:31.8

Hi.

0:32.9

Thanks for joining us.

0:35.0

Thank you for having me for this terrible book.

0:38.2

Yes.

0:39.1

By the way, writer and librarian and co-host of the Withdrawan podcast, we should mention.

0:44.7

Yeah.

0:45.6

On extended hiatus, because Steve lives in Atlanta and I live in California,

0:50.7

and it's really hard to make the three-hour time difference. We feel you. We plan to come back. Excellent. Well, you know, if you've never listened to it before, you can go to the archives and catch up. Or, you know what, just fuck with John. Just listen to worst bestsellers now because we've got Dali on it. And you're already listening to it. You're already...

1:11.0

Just more worst bestsellers.

1:13.4

You're already on this journey.

1:15.1

Time is a flat circle.

1:17.1

We know this.

1:19.5

Okay.

1:19.9

We are debating the next time we do it to just drop all seven episodes like S-Town now.

1:25.9

Or all the episodes, like just listen to them whenever whatever

1:29.3

there's no rules anymore there are no gods only podcasts that's actually not the moral of

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