What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

A fun collection of stories from Malcolm Gladwell's time at The New Yorker. The problem with this format is that most of the stories are fairly short and this leaves you longing on many of the subjects. However the benefit is that you can move through a subject that you find unentertaining fairly easily. So there is that trade off.

Gladwell has an interesting way of presenting you with a story, allowing the reader to make the assumption on where he is going, but then switching tact and surprising you with direction he takes. Usually this leads to a pleasant surprise and a new angle that you might not have thought of using yourself.

Now, I had read Outliers before this book and wasn't really that impressed with his logic and his writing. That might be part of the reason why I was impressed with this book. It might have also been that his writing style is more conducive to the shorter format that these articles were presented in. What ever the reason I enjoyed the short lighter snippets in this book even if some of them left me wanting more.

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- posted by Doug @ 3:30:00 PM