Ryan Bridge: Books I've been reading lately

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 3, 2026 · 1m · transcript

Look don't mind confessing you, dear listener, that I don't read many books.

I do listen to them on audio, I do read on holiday, but who has the time to actually sit down and get stuck into hundreds of pages?

People don't even watch full movies anymore.

You can't do much when you're checking your phone on average one billion times per hour.

But I did happen to stumble across one of the best reads I've had in a while a few weeks back in Barry Crump's 'A Good Keen Man'.

It's unpretentious. It's funny. It's outrageous. It paints a picture of New Zealand and New Zealanders that I think most can…