Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Odd Pairing
Amazon’s “Better Together” promo usually makes sense to me. It has offered me War & Peace with Anna Karenina, The Lady and the Unicorn with The Birth of Venus, Foucault’s Pendulum with Baudolino.
But just now? I was looking up an ISBN for a competitor’s textbook. Under “Better Together,” I was offered Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with The Great Conversation: Pre-Socratics Through Descartes. Hmmm. I thought the idea was to pair similar books, but perhaps Harry Potter has more in common with introductory philosophy than I thought.
| posted by Barbara | 12:48 AM