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A feeble attempt at a Malcom Gladwell or Michael Lewis book

Revisado: 06-28-24

A weird mush of anecdotal half stories and a psuedo scientific theory, not worth the time

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Interesting at times but repetitive, badly written

Revisado: 07-11-22

Some of the stories are very interesting, but the author did a bad job of making a book or story out of them. The characters, doctors, scientists and patients, are all flawlessly positive and outstanding in several ways, making this book sound like a collection of high school level assays.

Also, there is an unmistakable thread of arrogance and pride of the author himself, with sparkles of flase modesty, that make this into an unpleasant read/listen.

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Underwhelming

Revisado: 08-09-21

He might be a good researcher but this really doesn't merit a full book. nothing he says is profound and what might be innovative is good methods, but that is not very interesting for an ebook.

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The most profound and useful parenting book I read

Revisado: 05-30-21

Already put to great use with a 2 year old.

Very useful and practical, and not obvious at all.

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Love the author, but little new content

Revisado: 07-04-20

Almost everything already appeared in The Power Of Vulnerability. If you never heard any of her work then I do recommend.

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This guy is so far up his own ass

Revisado: 07-01-20

This guy is so far up his own ass it makes for a truly cringy listening experience.

He has a few good points and plenty of bullshit and self aggrandizement.

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Great stories, mediocre book

Revisado: 10-17-19

While Gladwell tells some fascinating stories and research facts, as he usually does, the theme in this book feels coerced. There are several parts that are good as of themselves, mostly in the beginning, but grouping then all under the extremely broad "taking to strangers" umbrella made no sense to me.

Many parts, including much of the second half of the book, are terribly boring, where Gladwell goes on and on about trivial points, reiterating the same things over and over again. For example, it's a trivial point to make that the acting in the show Friends is extremely pronounced in order to clarify the events well. Linking it the broader subject of Transparency is interesting, but there is really no point in giving the background about the show and interviewing an expert who could say which muscle groups were activated in Ross's face in which second of the scene.

Additionally, Gladwell makes a point of bringing interviews and original recordings where he could, which could be great, but I'm make of those cases the audio quality was terrible and I had to hear parts twice to understand what was being said.

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Not suitable for audiobook format - hard to follow

Revisado: 10-09-19

The content itself is interesting, but the book is to hard to follow when listening while doing something else. It is halfway between science and pop science, which is good as of itself but not good the way it's delivered. I imagine that when reading it I would have to go back and forth a lot, due to the multitude of names, dates and new terms. When listening I couldn't follow. I followed the chapters about the DNA technology where I have a strong background, but once the book got more deeply to populations I couldn't keep track. This kind of information really requires charts and maps.

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