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funny
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Parts of this book were very interesting... the global warming section started out good and then went on and on and on and then I lost interest.
I picked this book up because I really enjoyed the first book, Freakonomics. Sadly, I was disappointed with this book.
SuperFreakonomics is very similar to Freakonomics but it's like a worse version. I found the first book to be more engaging and the points brought out to be more reflective.
Maybe because of my high hopes, I enjoyed this book way less. It's not a bad book, just not what I expected.
SuperFreakonomics is very similar to Freakonomics but it's like a worse version. I found the first book to be more engaging and the points brought out to be more reflective.
Maybe because of my high hopes, I enjoyed this book way less. It's not a bad book, just not what I expected.
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I would have given this 5 stars, but I still don't know how credible the authors are and if there's anything I've learned from this book, it's that while there are hundreds of solutions to many issues of the world there are also hundreds of setbacks to those brilliant ideas. So who's to say whether or not one answer is better than the other without knowledge of what the future holds?
This was a SUPER interesting and thought-provoking book. I appreciated the authors approach to most of the ideas discussed and the fact that it got my brain rolling again. I think this may be the first non-fiction I've read since graduating from college. Sad, I know.
This was a SUPER interesting and thought-provoking book. I appreciated the authors approach to most of the ideas discussed and the fact that it got my brain rolling again. I think this may be the first non-fiction I've read since graduating from college. Sad, I know.
This book is really interesting to read. It's not difficult at all to understand, and gives an interesting insight into things I often hadn't thought about before. I can only hope they bring another like it out.
The epilogue in particular seemed a good way to end the book, leaving the reader in thought.
The epilogue in particular seemed a good way to end the book, leaving the reader in thought.
Fantastic book. Every bit as good as the first (Freakonomics). Highly recommend.
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Book was okay overall but there were definitely some weaker chapters. Feel like I preferred the first book. What was most interesting was when they talked about seatbelts for babies. Coming from invisible women who also talked about how seatbelts are suited for women (and probably teenagers too), it’s just surprising then until now no one’s really care enough about changing seatbelts despite only really working for an “average adult male”
The same non conventional thinking woven into a tapestry as the 1st book, but they use far more polarizing examples than the fun statistical outliers that we saw the first go round. Their continual attempt to pull back the data and find the connected points is fascinating and really keeps you plugged in to what they have to say. It's exactly what you expect, but you won't be disappointed.
I never read the first book, but thought I'd try this one. There's a lot to think about and question in this book, which purports to set the record straight on some things, like Kitty Genovese's apathetic witnesses, the need for car seats, climate change, altruism. However, much of what given as fact in the book goes unchallenged or simply seems to be correlation, not causation. I guess I ought to try to find the book in print, in hopes of seeing some citations that might help support the Steves' claims. Still, as I lead with, there's plenty of food for thought.