You are not "premium" content worthy of my hard-earned dollars. Please go away.

I understand Tina Brown's book is apt to be quite good. That's not the point.

The point is why on earth Salon adds a blog about an author plugging her book? There are lots of authors out there plugging books. Will each one get their own blog on Salon? Hell, I wrote a book one time. Where's my Salon blog?

Honestly, I find this more offensive than all the Paris Hilton stories combined.

Oh Salon, Salon, is this the pass to which we have come.

I came for Cintra. I stayed for Heather. And Joan. Ruben Bolling. Tom Tomorrow. And Cary (sometimes). Gary Kamiya's had some nice sentences lately.

But shall I flee from celebrity cultists? Whether Diana had a genuine humanitarian bone or not - a thin link on which to hang the cover story - she's gone. And can we get back to the ever-more-urgently pressing issues? Done a cover story on deforestation lately?

Also, the increasing transparency of product placement is beginning to worry me.

-- Concerned Ten Year Salon Reader

and that is saying a LOT. consider how many blogs exist....and then consider that this is the silliest of the lot.

flog the book elsewhere. this is what daytime talk shows are PERFECT for.

I'm down with reading a Tina Brown blog. But doesn't she have to POST SOMETHING?

I just finished reading your book. It was very touching, and I thought very insightful. I've always thought that of all the wrongs that were committed on both sides, Charles' letting Diana think he loved her and would be a true husband was the worst. No wonder she came undone.

Has anyone compared her to St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231)? Here's a webpage with a bio: www.cin.org/elizhung.html. What isn't mentioned in this bio is that she was very much in love with her husband (and most likely loved making love). She died at only 24. The biggest differences are that Diana didn't give up clothes and jewels, Elizabeth's husband actually loved her, and of course in the early 13th century the media were not a factor, although public opinion most certainly was.

It seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. I think one reason Diana's story moves people so deeply is that it has timeless, mythological significance.