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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
The audiobook is produced like a podcast that keeps you engaged the entire listen
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This one took me longer than I wanted it to. I would cry every time they played Sandra Blands voice. (Yes I listened to the audio book, and yes I recommend it highly)
This was so insightful. It deconstructs the idea that social injustice is not happening and that there’s nothing wrong with the way police departments are trained and run with data. And written with such conviction while still maintaining an air of consideration for every side.
Beautifully written, I want to read this one again.
This was so insightful. It deconstructs the idea that social injustice is not happening and that there’s nothing wrong with the way police departments are trained and run with data. And written with such conviction while still maintaining an air of consideration for every side.
Beautifully written, I want to read this one again.
I always learn something from Gladwell books and appreciate how he changes the way I see the world.
You think you know people? Think again. Gladwell takes real stories—scandals, crimes, misunderstandings—and shows how our instincts fail us more often than we realize. The audiobook version is a game-changer—it’s packed with real audio from courtrooms, interviews, and archival clips, making it feel like you’re living the story instead of just reading it!
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Bizarre book. Thought I was getting stuff done on meeting new people and the like. Started with some interesting case studies on like how spies remained undetected in the CIA for so long, then just ended up in a series of really weird and uncomfortable case studies about child sex abuse cases, the Brock Turner sexual assault, and detailed torture in Guantanamo bay. A small section on policing science at the end made it somewhat better, but apart from “humans default to truth”, can’t think of anything else I learned from this book because the case studies seemed some obscure, weird, and uncomfortable.