What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketc...
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Dec 07, 2011
Aram
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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.
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Mar 06, 2011
Lucius Kwok
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This is a collection of Malcolm Gladwell essays. Unlike some of his other books where he has a clear topic and something to keep coming back to, this book is just meandering essays which often go nowhere. Often, he concentrates on insignificant details, as if he were writing a novel in the Victorian age. It feels like he needed to pad his word count for the articles at times, so he writes paragraphs about how it feels to arrive at someone's house or someone's office. Unlike Oliver Sacks, Gladwel
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Jul 07, 2011
Amy
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Fascinating peak into these stories. Haven't read anything by Gladwell that I haven't liked.
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