A review by lizzypopp
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

3.0

I don't know how I should rate or review this book. I've enjoyed all of Malcolm Gladwell's other books, but I did not agree with many of Gladwell's conclusions, and felt like he over simplified too much. ***Trigger warning, he discusses several well known sexual assault cases in detail. I'm not mentioning them in my review, but I had no idea he would dissect them in such detail, so wanted to warn others before they read this book.
As always, Gladwell made me think about people and things in a different way than before. I agree that we tend to default to believing what someone is telling us, even when there's evidence to the contrary. And how we tend to think we're good at telling when someone is lying even if we aren't that good at it. I felt like his conclusions around the different cases he brought up were letting people off the hook.
I don't plan to read this again, but I would consider recommending it to others with some caveats.