July 13, 2008

The End of "The End," I hope ...

One of the standard book-naming conventions of the last two decades has been The End of Whatever: History, Racism, Poverty, Faith, or various other things that clearly aren't coming to an end. This week's Economist devotes a serious review to a book with the most absurd title yet in this line: The End of Food.

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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/13/08, 2:40 AM

    Hmmm, that's a pretty bad headline. My favourite all time bad headline was "Can Grant Hill Save Sports?" on the cover of GQ, that one was something else.

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  2. Anonymous7/13/08, 12:20 PM

    You can add "The Last [whatever]" to that, that's a not uncommon title these days. And whatever is being referred to is also never the last of its kind.

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  3. TGGP7/13/08, 1:47 PM

    Don't forget "The End of Science" by John Horgan. He still does Science Saturday at bloggingheads.tv and he always annoys me. George Johnson is much better.

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  4. Anonymous7/14/08, 7:47 AM

    Can I go OT for a minute? I read an Economist article about AIDS recently where the author was forced to admit reality:Africa is different! Thats why they have sooo much AIDS!He talked about how male and female Africans have multiple partners as a matter of course,referencing the infamous lorry drivers---and you know what those guys are up to! But,probably under pain of firing,added a cover your ass statement that,tho Africans do have all these multiple partners,they do NOT have more lovers in a lifetime than Europeans! So there! Uhmmm..what? :*

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  5. Anonymous7/14/08, 8:33 AM

    From some book titles containing "the end of" at Amazon:
    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22The+End+of%22

    Some ends are "scary":

    poverty
    oil
    food
    America
    faith
    reason
    Iraq
    history
    memory
    education
    medicine
    your world
    the world as you know it
    worlds
    baseball
    art
    beauty
    innocence
    reform
    Time
    days
    eternity
    the universe
    all things

    Some ends are "hopeful":

    panic
    stress
    suffering
    diets
    dead end dating
    suffering
    marketing
    Detroit
    the rainbow

    All ends promise "change":

    of the beginning
    globalization
    blackness
    the European Era

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  6. Anonymous7/15/08, 12:49 PM

    At least it's good for a joke: wouldn't 'the end of food' naturally be crap?

    Dr. Weevil

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