The evil that men do lives after them [1]
Sep. 29th, 2007 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollWhy do I persist in googling authors before I've read their books?
Matthew Jarpe: [...] "In Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond describes how Europe eclipsed China on the world stage because Europe was made up of a lot of little countries and China was one big country. Competition between states drove innovation, both technological and political."
[added later]
This seems to have turned into a discussion of Diamond (which is fine) but my orginal concern was that I will be reading the result of Jarpe's understanding of Diamond some time next week. My concern is that having read Jarpe's comments will bias my perception of his book. This could have been avoided by not researching him first.
1: Jared Diamond is dead to me.
Matthew Jarpe: [...] "In Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond describes how Europe eclipsed China on the world stage because Europe was made up of a lot of little countries and China was one big country. Competition between states drove innovation, both technological and political."
[added later]
This seems to have turned into a discussion of Diamond (which is fine) but my orginal concern was that I will be reading the result of Jarpe's understanding of Diamond some time next week. My concern is that having read Jarpe's comments will bias my perception of his book. This could have been avoided by not researching him first.
1: Jared Diamond is dead to me.
