The guy's best friend back in the States wasn't called Ron Jeremy, was he?
Seriously, you've got to get these details right - Wikipedia is not research, unless you feel you are writing for your 12 best friends, none of whom know any more than you do. I picked up Bill Bryson's The History of Everything a few years ago, and while it was fun reading, when I got to the part of the science that I actually *teach* in my day job, I noticed that it was full of serious errors. Which made me wonder how much of the rest of it was off-track. Even little details can throw a reader out of a story.
I'd have stopped at the italics, I'm pretty sure...
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 12:56 pm (UTC)Seriously, you've got to get these details right - Wikipedia is not research, unless you feel you are writing for your 12 best friends, none of whom know any more than you do. I picked up Bill Bryson's The History of Everything a few years ago, and while it was fun reading, when I got to the part of the science that I actually *teach* in my day job, I noticed that it was full of serious errors. Which made me wonder how much of the rest of it was off-track. Even little details can throw a reader out of a story.
I'd have stopped at the italics, I'm pretty sure...