I didn't see a link to Jo Walton's post. Do you have a link to that? You're right about Michael Crichton, and the bits I've read of his earlier works remind me of some of the best scientific writing I've read, too. (That was actually the kind of journalism I had wanted to study in college, so I could write for magazines like Scientific American and Psychology Today and whatnot, where I could take complex scientific concepts and make them comprehensible to the average person. Problem: I attended a too-small school with no journalism degree, damnit.)
Sears is a fascinating history, though I think I'd rather like to read an insider's take on its plummet, thanks to that boneheaded moron who smashed it together with Kmart and then drove both into the ground. I guess that would qualify as a trainwreck kind of history reading, though.
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Date: 8 Jan 2014 04:51 am (UTC)Sears is a fascinating history, though I think I'd rather like to read an insider's take on its plummet, thanks to that boneheaded moron who smashed it together with Kmart and then drove both into the ground. I guess that would qualify as a trainwreck kind of history reading, though.