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A review by andotherworlds
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
3.0
3 (perhaps 2.5 i am still undecided) // I don't think anyone can come even close to comprehending how elated I truly am to have finished this slow trudge of a novel. Before I elaborate I would like to preface that I read this as part of my classes' summer reading, I would certainly not have picked this up on my own accords.
Anyways, the main issue or note I would like to warn people who are curious about reading this book would be it's incredibly bland and unnecessarily sluggish pacing. While I understand wanting to build up a scene and describe the environment of each story to get a better feeling of the overall tone, writing extra, insignificant details to each story does not do any justice on anyone's part. Rather than feeling as if my reading experience was elevated by these extra details, I more so felt as if Gladwell was a student trying to add filler words to reach the word count of their essay. Paired with my lack of enthusiasm to even read this book, this slow, and wordy pacing simply led me down the cursed rabbit hole of a reading slump.
Overall, while this book covers some important themes, it quite frankly just utilized different stories as a way to rephrase the same concept over and over again. You could really just read the first chapter and understand the entire message and direction the book wants to get across. Hence my advice being to just pass on this one.
Anyways, the main issue or note I would like to warn people who are curious about reading this book would be it's incredibly bland and unnecessarily sluggish pacing. While I understand wanting to build up a scene and describe the environment of each story to get a better feeling of the overall tone, writing extra, insignificant details to each story does not do any justice on anyone's part. Rather than feeling as if my reading experience was elevated by these extra details, I more so felt as if Gladwell was a student trying to add filler words to reach the word count of their essay. Paired with my lack of enthusiasm to even read this book, this slow, and wordy pacing simply led me down the cursed rabbit hole of a reading slump.
Overall, while this book covers some important themes, it quite frankly just utilized different stories as a way to rephrase the same concept over and over again. You could really just read the first chapter and understand the entire message and direction the book wants to get across. Hence my advice being to just pass on this one.