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austnap's review against another edition
2.0
***DNF @ 35%.***
Extremely boring in my opinion. Just a collection of pieces the author has already written. Feels like you’re reading obscure news articles, because I am pretty sure that’s exactly what it is.
Gave it the extra star because I enjoyed a portion of one of the stories, but other than that I wasn’t really sure what was going on.
Extremely boring in my opinion. Just a collection of pieces the author has already written. Feels like you’re reading obscure news articles, because I am pretty sure that’s exactly what it is.
Gave it the extra star because I enjoyed a portion of one of the stories, but other than that I wasn’t really sure what was going on.
emilyb_chicago's review against another edition
4.0
Simply a collection of Gladwell's New Yorker articles. I had expected a bit more attached to each story, like a reflection on how life and times had changed since the original writing. In that I was disappointed, but the articles are as good as I expect from Gladwell and, honestly, I don't read the New Yorker very often so they were all new to me.
amrabad's review against another edition
Not what I was looking for in a Malcolm Gladwell
jdgerlach's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
libraryam's review against another edition
3.0
*Audio version*
Not my favorite Gladwell book but still interesting. I think I prefer his long format theories to collections of his shorter pieces.
Not my favorite Gladwell book but still interesting. I think I prefer his long format theories to collections of his shorter pieces.
libellum_aphrodite's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed the interconnectedness of Blink or Outliers (and the rest of Gladwell's non-anthology books) better than the assortment of articles, but there were some pretty interesting ones here. These were some my favorites, some of which were unexpected winners:
* The Ketchup Conundrum (seriously, all about ketchup, and it was great)
* True Colors
* John Rock's Error (new understandings of the tale of the birth control pill always get me)
* Million Dollar Murray
* The Picture Problem
* Something Borrowed
* Late Bloomers
* The New-Boy Network
* The Ketchup Conundrum (seriously, all about ketchup, and it was great)
* True Colors
* John Rock's Error (new understandings of the tale of the birth control pill always get me)
* Million Dollar Murray
* The Picture Problem
* Something Borrowed
* Late Bloomers
* The New-Boy Network
maryquitecontrary_22's review against another edition
3.0
A compilation of Gladwell's columns from The New Yorker-- the ones about economics and business were too dry for me, but there were several that I found fascinating, including "Most Likely to Succeed," which compares the likelihood of NFL quarterbacks being successful in the pros to beginning teachers' chances of succeeding in their field of work. (The point of that one being that in some jobs, we can't predict whether one will be effectual until he/she is actually put in the position.)