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It was great, Durham Literature Festival, Durham Book Festival.

I was reading residents there.

I did a panel on the, on Sunday morning with the writer Kit Duval who is going to be a guest here on

backlisted in a few weeks time and with Kathy Rensenbrink the books journalist and

terrific author Kathy Rensen Br and and she mentioned something on this panel that we did about what makes a classic

which is really stuck in my mind and I want to raise it with you now, right? She said, oh she said, there's a thing I see people

doing on Twitter where someone will say, for the sake of argument, let's say John

Updyke, right right someone will say has

anyone read any John Updike should I should I give it a go and people will

reply and said oh I read like 10 pages of Rabbit Run and didn't get on with it, not for me.

And then the first person will reply and say, oh, thanks for that, you've saved me the bother.

I think that's terrible.

Imagine like the great years and years that people take to write books and because someone

had a bit of an off day or didn't really get it or couldn't be bothered.

Someone else just goes, oh yeah, thanks for saving me the bother.

Isn't that just the same as someone saying I didn't like the first track and an

LP and then not listening to the rest of it? Yes.

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