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Excellent real life stories of pioneers, some succeed and others don't but it's the perseverance and belief that counts.
I like all of Gladwell's books. Like the others, this one was insightful, interesting and intriguing. If you have never read this author/researcher, I would recommend OUTLIERS a bit more than this one.
I truly love the way Malcolm Gladwell writes and describes the people that he interviews in his stories. He has such joy and inquisitiveness that it shines through and I can't help but feel excited and intrigued. There were about 4 or 5 different stories here and they all interested me. Ron Popeil and his family are amazing. I never knew how driven and eccentric they were and are. The birth control story and how women in western cultures have many more menses and a higher rate of cervical and ov...
I've read both Blink and Outliers, and though I can't recall the details of either, I remember liking both of them more than any other nonfiction work I've read in my lifetime. Gladwell, I thought, had a unique way of getting his point across - he'd tell stories instead of rattle off facts, which was more learning-inducive for my fiction-wired brain. So when I saw What the Dog Saw in Barnes and Noble, I picked it up immediately. If his long works were fascinating, I thought, then surely his coll...
I found a couple stories to be really difficult to get through, but overall it was an interesting read and enjoyable. The last story about the dog whisperer was great.
