That Changed the World
Have you ever noticed how so many non-fiction book titles seem to fall into the same cliché these days? Subject: Subtitle to Grab You. A friend of mine mentioned that the subtitle in many of them is an overblown claim that it changed the world, and remarked how this is applied way too often.
How often? Well, a quick Amazon search for "that changed the world" brought up over 1500 book titles, in every area possible, with that phrase in the title or subtitle. Some of the ones that tickled me:
Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World
Atlantic Ocean: The Illustrated History of the Ocean That Changed the World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
The Box That Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping - An Illustrated History
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Now, this is not to belittle the things that did actually change the world (like agriculture, the alphabet, the extinction of the dinosaur), but honestly, did Felt actually change the world?