I felt that Benjamin Cook's role in the book was really just to draw Davies out on particular topics, mainly musings on writing itself, which he does perfectly well. He clearly likes Davies's work and there aren't a lot of questions about "why is that episode crap", but then again the book is basically a blog by Davies with a prompter, so I was okay with it.
Yes, so Davies says.
I suppose. I genuinely didn't get the impression that he was lying - he has no reason to, really. He doesn't lie where it would clearly help his case elsewhere in the book! Plus the sample pages from the Pompeii episode pre- and post-rewrite do seem to bear him out.
One thing I like about the book is that, despite my many problems with his writing, Davies doesn't come across as self-aggrandising - except when he knows and admits that he's arrogant. If anything he comes across as deeply flawed, and fully aware of it.
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I felt that Benjamin Cook's role in the book was really just to draw Davies out on particular topics, mainly musings on writing itself, which he does perfectly well. He clearly likes Davies's work and there aren't a lot of questions about "why is that episode crap", but then again the book is basically a blog by Davies with a prompter, so I was okay with it.
Yes, so Davies says.
I suppose. I genuinely didn't get the impression that he was lying - he has no reason to, really. He doesn't lie where it would clearly help his case elsewhere in the book! Plus the sample pages from the Pompeii episode pre- and post-rewrite do seem to bear him out.
One thing I like about the book is that, despite my many problems with his writing, Davies doesn't come across as self-aggrandising - except when he knows and admits that he's arrogant. If anything he comes across as deeply flawed, and fully aware of it.