Richard Osman, 50, recently published The Man Who Died Twice, his sequel to his bestselling book, The Thursday Murder Club. But despite the roaring success of his first novel, the creator and co-presenter of Pointless has admitted he cannot help but feel “upset” when receiving a blistering review.Richard claimed crime writer Joan Smith’s review of his work for The Sunday Times felt like a “vindictive attack” on him.Joan wrote that the book was “a novel so flawed that it is hard to believe it would ever have been published without a celebrity’s name on the cover".Richard told this week's Radio Times: “That did upset me.“It felt very personal, like it wasn’t really a reflection on the book, but a vindictive attack on me.“Success doesn’t.
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