Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026 podcast

It's why people think Boots is better than Superdrug.

A little bit.

I mean, like John Steinbeck was a writer that I was bored to death of at school.

But then I reread The Grapes of Wrath and that is such a book for now because it's about what happens to an economy when technology takes over and how a human is lost and it's a migration story.

It was written in 1962, but the dog's still around.

Yeah, and yeah, he was quite radical as well.

Yes, he did East of Eden, like socialist fiction.

But he's just, because he's been in the curriculum here and in America for so long, he's so sort of like,

I slightly worry about sort of like the modern internet side of book culture and the star rating kind of culture where everything becomes average.

You know, it's what the average consensus is of a book.

I think that's dangerous.

I mean, the amount of books I really like are like 3.3 on Google.

No.

Yeah, I've seen this.

Yeah, a TikTok thing.

I'm reducing it to just like one expression.

Yeah, because they have to for the reels.

But yeah, I do think that.

I'm with Sarah because it's almost like rating people, isn't it?

I imagine comedy is the most personal thing because the blurring between you and the material must be so intense.

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