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Welcome back for More or Less, where each guest says one thing they want to see more of or less of in culture. Robert, what do you have? Okay,

well, actually inspired by my boycott of the end of this series, I'm actually going to talk about something which I feel people don't do enough, which is walk away from things that they don't enjoy. My wife is a dreadful completist, so if we get more than three or four episodes into something, it's going to go on. That's okay if it's a one series thing, but if you get something like Grey's Anatomy, you're never going to get the lounge back. It's over. Actually, I'm very much one of those people who will, I didn't enjoy this. I'm not watching it anymore. Or I liked one series, but I can't be bothered to watch a second. And this also goes to the theatre, where I think there's a great deal to be said for leaving at half time. You don't have to make a fuss, but if you're not enjoying it, just go to the bar, have a drink and don't go back in. And I'm a big fan of not wasting your time doing things you don't want to do. So that's my, let's do more of that.

Okay. More of that. I'm shook by this idea of leaving a play halfway. That's so different than stopping a book halfway. That was great. Harriet, what about you?

I have a more, which I feel, you know, I've done a few mores and a few lesses on the show. And this is probably the more that I feel most strongly about and that would the most improve the quality of my life. And it does relate to what we've been discussing this week, I know, on Tentahooks, which is I like to read a lot of what you would call, you know, quote unquote, light books so I mentioned Marion Keys before uh Jilly Cooper would also fall into that um but also things like you know the Richard Osman uh murder books like all these like slightly like books that aren't sort of like challenging you particularly but they're just like really good reads the problem I have and the thing I would like more of is nowhere will review them in a way that tells you whether they're actually good or not. So even something like the new Richard Osman book, you know, which is huge, like number one bestseller, you might find a couple of think pieces on it, but you will not just find an FT critic sitting down and saying, this book is well plotted, you know, the characters are well developed, it good it's bad which means I often find myself wasting my time on books which are at the top of the charts but which you know just aren't actually very well written because no one will take these books seriously so I would just love it if good journalists started paying attention to you know quote-unquote not good books and just telling me whether I should read them or not. I think it's a

really good point.