Episode 82 – Breaking Dawn
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
It’s been three years since our very first episode, when Carrie read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer with us! (And two years since we read New Moon and one year since we read Eclipse!) We’re back to play the Worst Bestsellers drinking game and drunkenly discuss the final book in the saga, Breaking Dawn. It’s a book with something for everyone–a wedding, a horrifyingly graphic birth scene, a baby, a werewolf pack schism, and a vampire named Renata. Thanks to all our Best Listeners for three great years of terrible books!
How the #podcat gets made 😻 pic.twitter.com/phEOZaVls7
— Renata Sancken (@renatasnacks) September 8, 2017
It’s that time, once again. #wbsdrinkinggame pic.twitter.com/iAJ9COjqMo
— kait 👻🏳️🌈🎃 (@fourteenacross) September 8, 2017
Readers advisory: Twilight
Footnotes: Bonus Episode – Twilight Movies (Patreon patrons only)
Iron Wine – “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” (Breaking Dawn wedding song)
We Might Be Getting More ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Twilight’ Movies
Great Comet’s Creator Still Can’t Believe How His Show Ended
How Did This Get Made? #27 – Breaking Dawn Part 1
How Did This Get Made? #50 – Breaking Dawn Part 2
Worst Bestsellers Drinking Game
Candy pairing: Carrie says Lik-M-Aid, Kait says Jordan almonds, Renata says Doritos.
Coming up next: Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, |
| 0:12.1 | where we read about a vampire's right to choose so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.0 | And for this episode, we read Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer. |
| 0:21.9 | Joining us to discuss the final book of the Twilight saga, finally, is Caroline, a veteran |
| 0:31.0 | twilight enthusiast and member of the vampire resistance. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello. |
| 0:36.2 | Welcome. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm not really sure if I'm resisting vampires or if I'm like one of the good vampires |
| 0:43.6 | resisting something else. |
| 0:46.4 | But I think I'll probably work it out over the course of discussing what the hell |
| 0:49.8 | happened in this book. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, I like a statement with some ambiguity. |
| 0:53.6 | Like I think that's why |
| 0:54.3 | Stephanie Meyer's work speaks so deeply to so many people. You can just read so much into her |
| 1:00.6 | words. Yeah, I don't know that, like, ambiguity and really what the hell is happening are the |
| 1:06.0 | same thing, but there's some overlap. Before we get very far into this, |
| 1:12.3 | I would just like to issue a quick correction from previous episodes. |
| 1:17.3 | I recently have been talking about in X-Men how Gambit is a member of the Thieves Guild. |
| 1:23.6 | And over on Twitter, our friend Sigrid Ellis correctly pointed out that I'm wrong and is actually the Teves Guild with no age. |
| 1:31.7 | And I just, I really regret my error and I wanted to try to make it right. |
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