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miyamoto 's review for:
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Malcolm Gladwell
David and Goliath failed to live up to what I expected from Gladwell. While the book has a few intriguing key ideas (contrasting the big fish/small pond and small fish/big pond and the counterintuitive result of California's three-strikes law), it often felt like Gladwell was a little too enamored with what he was presenting and used cheap tricks to activate readers' emotional states (e.g., describing heinous crimes and acts of violence in great detail).
He uses a number of important historical examples to illustrate his points, but meanders through and then seems to hastily pull everything together at the end - perhaps he was hitting his book deadline?
I listened to the audiobook (read by Gladwell), and just got tired of hearing Gladwell go on and on.
He uses a number of important historical examples to illustrate his points, but meanders through and then seems to hastily pull everything together at the end - perhaps he was hitting his book deadline?
I listened to the audiobook (read by Gladwell), and just got tired of hearing Gladwell go on and on.