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MacKenzie Bezos: Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies, and unfortunately that casts doubt over every episode in
by chalst 13y ago
MacKenzie Bezos: Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies, and unfortunately that casts doubt over every episode in the book.
Brad Stone: Mrs. Bezos also suggests that there are a handful of factual errors in my account.
There is something slippery about the way Brad Stone writes.
- vasilipupkin 13y agoIndeed, but the two may not be mutually exclusive. "Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge" doesn't automatically mean more than a handful
- endersshadow 13y agoGiven that her personal knowledge extends more than twenty years, I would say that it's safe to assume that it's more than a handful.
- barretts 13y agoThere's something slippery about the way Mrs. Bezos writes as well. She says: "Readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book." She conveniently elides the fact that Brad Stone has interviewed Bezos several times for previous articles, and has written about Amazon for a decade or more. It is certainly tricky, however, for an author to suggest he/she knows what a subject was thinking/feeling in the past.
- OvidNaso 13y agoThis was posted yesterday on Reddit in writing tips. It's advice from Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) to never use 'thinking' verbs wrt your characters. It's for fiction, but I think it is every better applied for non-fiction. Mr. Stone should have a look at it. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1pwh3z/what_small_change_can_i_make_to_my_writing_that/cd6u9bu http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1pwh3z/what_small...
- ColinCochrane 13y agoThanks for the link. That was a great read.