Cassie McCullagh
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, description is one thing.
When it's done beautifully, I love it.
But what was that?
Can I just enjoy another little moment later on, which is further on in my journey where I'd been kayaking through one of the deepest sounds in the world.
Can I just say we can see that because you clearly dropped this book into a puddle.
It's soaked.
We get this recipe about how to make tomato soup from tinned tomatoes.
And butter.
And no cooking of the onions.
Apparently, it's brilliant.
You have to take the onions out.
I haven't tried it, but...
What is this kind of description?
Why does this belong in a novel?
I mean, this is just page filling.
But we don't get to find out any of the interesting detail.
It's a bit like, gee, I'm going to really stick it in now.
It's a bit like he went, okay, I'm going to be writing from seven till nine each weekday and then I'm going to go off and live my actual life.
And this is what we got.
We got sort of two hours of rightly kind of box-ticking...