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    <body><![CDATA[I know, you don’t think you have the time and there are other and more important books to read at the moment, but be warned, you do need to read this book.<br/><br/>There are a number of ways I can tell a book will be good; one of those ways is if Graham has recommended it to me (how am I going ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41744865">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gladwell argues that success is tightly married to opportunity and time on task. He states that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to master something and that gives me comfort. It helps me feel better about my many failures at initial attempts to master things (like glazing pottery, algebra, Salsa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39454795">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell's new book reads like a series of cocktail-party anecdotes.  Whether the book is a mere fluff piece or something more is open to debate.  At its heart, it has two themes: (1) That success depends not just on talent but opportunity, and (2) that success (and failure) also depend on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37746813">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's what I <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://trifle.vox.com/library/post/book-review-outliers.html">wrote</a> earlier. I have to admit to the more I think and talk about the book, the less I think of it. It all seems too superficial.<br/><br/>A pretty interesting book, albeit with not quite as many &quot;knock me over with a feather&quot; moments as <em>Blink</em>. It starts off with a bang, as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39395462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't exactly read this book - Joe and I listened to it in the car on the way home from visiting family for Christmas. I really enjoyed it, and was very fascinated by certain parts of it, especially the sections about the Beatles, computer programmers and Korean co-pilots.<br/><br/>But my enjoyme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41219354">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In trying to think about this book logically in order for me to provide a review I discovered something: this book defies logic.  Mr Gladwell doesn't provide anything sold to stand on.  The vast majority of this book was anecdotes, and the first half of the book is a straw man argument.  The tidbits...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52279156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can save you the trouble of reading the book: smart people don't automatically become successful, they do so because they got lucky.  This rule applies to everyone including the likes of Bill Gates and Robert Oppenheimer. That's it.  That's what the whole book is about.  Gladwell looks at case aft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40445372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Occasionally insightful, but Gladwell's science is pretty junky. His reasons for success change by the page. And he cherry-picks examples to exactly fit the scheme under consideration. Plus, he's obsessed with callbacks and summary statements that only showcase the faulty connections between ideas.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Outliers&quot; those wildly successful people, for whom 'normal rules don't apply.' Are they just lucky, talented? Maybe...but, outliers may not be outliers after all...after reading the entire book, I was slapped by that at the very end. Gladwell looks closely at success, and those who seem t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43655332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a feeling oriented review like those that seem to be getting esteem here.  While this is a well-researched and easily readable book that makes some interesting points, most of its contents are pure common sense. <br/><br/>In a world so highly populated with such strong inequities, of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38175233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to the unabridged copy while driving to/from Thanksgiving.  Gladwell's books are often controversial because he tends to present only one side -- HIS side -- of an argument and gloss over anything that doesn't jive with his view.  That said, the guy knows how to write and how to tell a st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39388805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A completely fascinating account of why some people succeed and some don't--from when a person is born to the number of hours they go to school to circumstance. This will be of interest to anyone who is thinking about when to start their kids in school, people interested in education policy, ok, eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30329537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[People are criticizing this book because it is not a journal article. Well guess what: we're not all sociologists. I have read plenty of journal articles in my own field (law). I'm in no position to read journal articles in fields outside my own. Having a well-written piece of mass-market writing is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41342524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has got to be Malcolm Gladwell’s best book yet, and coming from a fan like me, that’s saying something! <br/><br/>As the subtitle states, this is a book of success stories, and true to his usual style, Gladwell draws on a diverse and interesting set of examples and presents a unique thesi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39864395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a lot of fun to read.  It reminded me of Freakonomics and Predictably Irrational - a fun, light romp through the social sciences.  He's not a researcher himself; he just cherry-picks a variety of fascinating anecdotes to illustrate his points, but it makes for great reading and fodder ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46173005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is excellent. It's fascinating, insightful, sometimes even shocking and always entertaining. If you don't read it, you're really missing out on some great research and writing.<br/><br/>Why four stars? In my less-than-humble opinion this book, or rather this author, has the same problem ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44599611">more...</a>]]></body>
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