I forgot to mention several things that I meant to but got distracted by the head injury:

1) I finished A Beautiful Mind. Actually... I have some qualms. I remember how in the movie reviews were all, "They didn't bring in the fact that he was bisexual!" But really, in the book he has a couple of brief gay affairs and it's no huge deal. Whereas some of the other stuff they left out or changed around in the movie is staggering. Like, in my opinion, a main theme of the movie is the power of love. His wife sticks with him despite his illness. And in the end of the movie he gives this speech about how he owed everything to her. It gives you this warm feeling inside, you're just so happy for them. But really: they divorced like, in the 60's. He hated her for a long time for having him committed. They kind of got back to the point where they're living together after awhile, but still never re-married, and you could hardly say that his love for her or her love for him is what sustained him over the crazy years. Also, he has two kids. The one he has with his wife they kind of gloss over in the movie other than having it around as a baby. The illegitimate kid he has they never bring up at all. By the end of the book, the legitimate kid is just as crazy as Nash used to be, and the illegitimate kid pretty much hates him because he's never been there for him or his mother. Also, before Nash got crazy he was a huge jerk. About the only things that are the same as the movie are the really broad facts: he was a genius, he gets crazy, he gets better out of nowhere, he gets a nobel prize for stuff he did back before he was crazy.

2) Finished the Michael Crichton book. It got better. But I'm getting kind of tired of him and his preachiness. Most of his books, as anyone who's ever even seen the movie adaptation of Jurrassic Park can agree, are basically, "you should be responsible with technology, otherwise it's going to kill you and everyone you ever loved!" But even the non sci fi books are basically, "society's ridiculous! no one knows what the hell they're doing!" which the technology bit is probably a subcategory of. And this book's how Global Warming is totally bunk and everyone who thinks it isn't is an idiot, and no enviornmentalists know what the hell they're doing. So it got irritating to read a 500 page book of journal references on how global warming is totally bunk and no environmentalists know what the hell they're doing. He doesn't even try to make it not transparent that he thinks all environmentalists are idiots and everyone should disbelieve everything in the media and spend 8 hours a day looking up stuff they read or hear or see to make sure it's true.

3) Damn. This point was going to be the whole reason I made this post, but I forgot it again when I got sidetracked writing what I thought of those books.