Freakonomics
I finished Freakonomics today. It made great airplane reading and it's been hard to put it down and pay attention to my family since I've been home.
The authors accuse themselves of lacking a theme in this book. Perhaps -- I thought it had theme enough: giving conventional wisdoms a sober and critical look. But I did notice that any lack of theme was recovered by thoughtful, excellent transitions.
Is it shallow of me to enjoy the form, the words, the quality sentences, every bit as much, perhaps more, than I enjoy the ideas?
The authors accuse themselves of lacking a theme in this book. Perhaps -- I thought it had theme enough: giving conventional wisdoms a sober and critical look. But I did notice that any lack of theme was recovered by thoughtful, excellent transitions.
Is it shallow of me to enjoy the form, the words, the quality sentences, every bit as much, perhaps more, than I enjoy the ideas?
posted by Andrew Petro @ 8:59 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:14 AM,
Elizabeth said…
No.
In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis describes reading a book, because you enjoy it and not because you want to make clever comments about it in order to impress your friends, as a wholesome pleasure, completely the domain of the Enemy.
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