Comments on: Hey, Where’s the Joy of Cooking? http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hey-wheres-the-joy-of-cooking/ falling indelibly into the past Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:13:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hey-wheres-the-joy-of-cooking/#comment-2379 KF Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:08:02 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=1000#comment-2379 <p>Oh, yes.  <i>Are You There, God...</i> absolutely deserves a place.  Which goes to the whole “influential with whom” question.  Because the answer is clearly not 11-year-old girls. </p> <p> And depending on how you measure influence, shouldn’t <i>Harry Potter</i> trump all of this? </p> Oh, yes.  Are You There, God… absolutely deserves a place.  Which goes to the whole “influential with whom” question.  Because the answer is clearly not 11-year-old girls.

And depending on how you measure influence, shouldn’t Harry Potter trump all of this?

]]> By: BT http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/hey-wheres-the-joy-of-cooking/#comment-2378 BT Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:55:18 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=1000#comment-2378 <p>Fascinating—arguably moreso than the similarly structured lists of Grrrrrreat Books that there was so much fuss over. </p> <p> Where IS the Joy of Cooking?  And no Future Shock? Apparently Invisible Man is just for us serphistercates—didn’t influence anyone else. </p> <p> Theresa suggests that Judy Blume and Lee Iacocca are both missing. </p> <p> There’s a sense here that the “influential” books are often those that bring an important idea or finding into mass-cultural circulation, like Watson’s The Double Helix.  It’s almost as if the book’s name or author had to pass into cocktail-party -level conversation to be considered.  Stanley Milgram’s ideas (again, my psychologist wife points outs) are arguable as influential than many of the other psychological figures on this list—but his name, unlike Reich’s or Jung’s, didn’t pass into common currency. </p> <p> Thinking of more would be a very fun game. </p> <p> And hey—where are the fundamentalist Xtians?  Where’s The Late Great Planet Earth?  WHERE’S CHARIOTS OF THE GODS???? </p> Fascinating—arguably moreso than the similarly structured lists of Grrrrrreat Books that there was so much fuss over.

Where IS the Joy of Cooking?  And no Future Shock? Apparently Invisible Man is just for us serphistercates—didn’t influence anyone else.

Theresa suggests that Judy Blume and Lee Iacocca are both missing.

There’s a sense here that the “influential” books are often those that bring an important idea or finding into mass-cultural circulation, like Watson’s The Double Helix.  It’s almost as if the book’s name or author had to pass into cocktail-party -level conversation to be considered.  Stanley Milgram’s ideas (again, my psychologist wife points outs) are arguable as influential than many of the other psychological figures on this list—but his name, unlike Reich’s or Jung’s, didn’t pass into common currency.

Thinking of more would be a very fun game.

And hey—where are the fundamentalist Xtians?  Where’s The Late Great Planet Earth?  WHERE’S CHARIOTS OF THE GODS????

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