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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
I was a pretty big fan of [b:the first two Freakonomics books|20655234|Freakonomics + Superfreakonomics|Steven D. Levitt|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1401313742s/20655234.jpg|39951293], but this one is not in the same league.
It is written in the authors’ usual style, which remains pretty much the same, and just as entertaining: breezy, light, and conversational, meandering from one cute anecdote to another in an amusingly roundabout pursuit of some larger theme. But the anecdotes themselves were less off-the-wall, amusing, or clever. There were still a few that I couldn't help recounting to other people, like the real reason Van Halen didn’t want brown M&Ms backstage, or why [b:SuperFreakonomics|6402364|SuperFreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance|Steven D. Levitt|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1308117804s/6402364.jpg|6591160] came right out and told terrorists to buy life insurance if they wanted to outsmart the screening algorithms. But on the whole, the stories seemed a little less original, considerably less thoroughly analyzed, and the connections between them more forced.
It’s still a pleasant read, but fell considerably short of the high bar set by the earlier two books.
It is written in the authors’ usual style, which remains pretty much the same, and just as entertaining: breezy, light, and conversational, meandering from one cute anecdote to another in an amusingly roundabout pursuit of some larger theme. But the anecdotes themselves were less off-the-wall, amusing, or clever. There were still a few that I couldn't help recounting to other people, like the real reason Van Halen didn’t want brown M&Ms backstage, or why [b:SuperFreakonomics|6402364|SuperFreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance|Steven D. Levitt|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1308117804s/6402364.jpg|6591160] came right out and told terrorists to buy life insurance if they wanted to outsmart the screening algorithms. But on the whole, the stories seemed a little less original, considerably less thoroughly analyzed, and the connections between them more forced.
It’s still a pleasant read, but fell considerably short of the high bar set by the earlier two books.