You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
5.5k reviews for:
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell
3.83 AVERAGE
5.5k reviews for:
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell
3.83 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Few sketchy scenes but dang this stuff was interesting!!!
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
It was an interesting book talking about the different aspects of why people default to truth. Which I think throughout the entirety of the book is the main point. It makes you think about the way we interact with strangers and the way that our society has built so many of the systems that have made an negative impact on society. I enjoyed this book for its perspective.
dark
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
Interesting take on why we frequently misinterpret other people, building on a series of psychological theories. I was surprised to learn that facial expressions we thought were innate representations of emotion (like a dropped jaw for surprise) are not consistent across humans (e.g., something I’d interpret as disgust may mean happiness in someone in a remote community). The discussion of coupling (that two conditions simultaneously have to exist for an outcome to occur) had clear implications for suicide and crime prevention.
The majority of this book is a series of somewhat interesting pop psych anecdotes, with almost no connection to an overall theme. I'm not sure how the actual book was written, but the audiobook is produced like a bad podcast, full of hints of what's coming up as though it was a series or something, which was frustrating and off-putting.
There was one section in the middle about the Brock Turner case that really turned me off where he was just short of victim blaming. It really changed how I looked at the rest of the book, and I can't recommend it.
There was one section in the middle about the Brock Turner case that really turned me off where he was just short of victim blaming. It really changed how I looked at the rest of the book, and I can't recommend it.