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A review by freudss
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
4.0
This book should be titled "How to Understand People" - for some reason we live in a world that lacks empathy that we have an author like Malcolm Gladwell tying in past events from multiple angles to help us learn how to communicate. It irks me that a book like this even needs to be written, it's really quite simple, do you have the emotional intelligence to see when someone is troubled, in trouble or making trouble? Do you have the capacity to see that there are people out there who were taught the *wrong way*?
I am giving this book a 4/5 because it really should be read by more people so that we start learning as a society to admit when we're wrong, put aside our prejudice but also be informed and have realistic expectations of what the world actually is like. In actuality, I think the writing is 3/5. It felt very scattered, and then when it finally started tying in nicely by the second half of the book I was so exhausted from reading the first half. It has recent accounts that were interesting to digest such as the Brock Turner case. I felt more connected with Gladwell's thoughts the second half when all of his points started tying together.
I am giving this book a 4/5 because it really should be read by more people so that we start learning as a society to admit when we're wrong, put aside our prejudice but also be informed and have realistic expectations of what the world actually is like. In actuality, I think the writing is 3/5. It felt very scattered, and then when it finally started tying in nicely by the second half of the book I was so exhausted from reading the first half. It has recent accounts that were interesting to digest such as the Brock Turner case. I felt more connected with Gladwell's thoughts the second half when all of his points started tying together.