A review by johnmrozy
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1.0

An interesting idea, decently well-written by an obviously smart man. For 50 pages. After that, it's a self-congratulatory retreading of the same theories, with no new evidence. He seems to spend most of his time lambasting arrogant thinkers and theoreticians with no real-world experience, but attributes none of his viewpoints to anything but his own sui generis genius. Most damningly, the illustrative example he repeatedly uses to prove his point is fictitious, though you'll have to scour the footnotes to find where he admits it.

By page 100, it wasn't worth the energy it took to hold the book open.