Episode 94 – Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of our Big Podcast Crossover Event with I Don’t Even Own A Television, J.W. and Collision joined us to discuss James Patterson’s Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas. It’s a beautiful example of the power of Telling, Not Showing. Specifically, telling your children all about your sex life with way too much detail. Turn off your Macy Gray albums and get ready to dive into a book so stupid that it took four book podcasters to fully unpack it!
Content warning: This book and our discussion of it contains both miscarriage and the death of an infant.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: I Don’t Even Own A Television #102 – Maximum Ride
Episode #61 – Bridges of Madison County
Dave Malloy – The Whale As A Dish (from Moby Dick)
Dave Malloy – A Squeeze of the Hand
Shoba Narayan Performs A Song From Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick
Candy pairing: Collision says butterscotch hard candy, J. W. says Buttered Popcorn Jelly Bellies, Kait says Jolly Ranchers, Renata says an elaborate caramel apple.
Congratulations to Melinda, who won our #BygoneBadassBroads pin giveaway! And thanks to everyone who entered and supported Trident Books. We may have more things to support Trident through the aftermath of their fire, so stay tuned!
Coming up next: Having It All by Helen Gurley Brown.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about white people with heart problems so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James |
| 0:22.9 | Patterson. Joining us to discuss this Nicholas Sparks knockoff are J.W. Friedman and Chris |
| 0:29.7 | Bullet Journal Collision from I Don't Even Own a Television. Hello. Hello. Welcome. |
| 0:43.2 | We have temporarily lifted our ban on men to let you guys on our podcast. |
| 0:47.2 | It feels like an honor. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.8 | I'd like you guys to be the one who lifted the ban, thus inaugurating our new age of not all men being banned from your show. |
| 0:57.7 | You can't keep making that joke, or we're going to get kicked back off. |
| 1:06.4 | Okay, so welcome. |
| 1:09.4 | Before we get too far into this, of course, if you are listening to this podcast right now |
| 1:15.7 | and you didn't listen to us appear on the I Don't Even Own a Television podcast, |
| 1:21.1 | you should go back and check that out because this is part two of a crossover event. |
| 1:27.9 | And you will understand nothing if you haven't listened to that. |
| 1:32.4 | At least you'll know way less about 98% human, 2% bird children. |
| 1:38.1 | That's right. |
| 1:39.0 | And we don't know. |
| 1:39.9 | They could have been living on Martha's Vineyard just in the background. |
| 1:46.4 | I'm told that some are calling it the biggest crossover event in history. |
| 1:52.9 | Is there a James Patterson shared universe? |
| 1:56.8 | Oh. |
| 1:58.6 | The cinematic universe. |
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