I Heart Jared Diamond

Who, if he were paying attention to me, would be terrified of having a stalker by now. He does, however, have a beeeeeootiful take on Michael Crichton in the latest Salon, which you have to watch an ad to read - the whole interview is worth reading, but I'll give you the last part as a teaser:

There are a couple of things to be added to it. One is that my previous book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," has sold more copies than Michael Crichton's one and a half million, so I think my new book will get to more readers. And the other thing is that Michael Crichton is a very skilled writer of fiction. And fiction is, by definition, the telling of stories that are untrue. He's very good at that. And I'm a writer of nonfiction, which aims to be the telling of stories that are true.