Anna's review
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
ooh i want to know about uggs, too, so i will probably read this book. i love that your review is mostly negative and then you're like "four stars yeah!" but i'm kind of the same with gladwell-- i sort of enjoyed "blink" (in a yelling-at-the-tv kind of way) but i also thought it was silly.
actually, i take that back. your review wasn't necessarily "mostly negative". 'frothy' could be a compliment-- for example, if you were describing a cappuccino. and the uggs thing is actually a major selling point because seriously WHY?
i think a "yelling-at-the-tv" kind of way is the PERFECT description because so much of the book was like, "okay, dude, we get it, shit's connected," but i still enjoyed it. and frothy wasn't intended positively or negatively necessarily. just...descriptively.
I read The Tipping Point when it first came out since I'm interested not just in things like why uggs (or hush puppies) became fads, but how to influence/implement social change. I enjoyed it at the time, but I've been surprised at how often I refer back to it when I think about what I should do within organizations/community to help create the outcomes that I want. It was the book that I most often recommended to people the year that it came out.
you were actually the one who recommended it to me. and i feel like now i'm coming off as though i didn't enjoy reading it, which i did. i think if i found myself in a position to be able to use more of the concepts, it might come up more often.
no, your review was perfectly nice. my comment was just snarkier than i intended. it's all my fault! and i haven't even read it! although now i want to!
No worry. I didn't feel dissed by your not being as wowed by the book as I was. You know what an odd world view I have!
Anna's review
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Anna's review
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recommended for: lazy people, people who are obsessed with 6 degrees of kevin bacon
it's frothy pop-psych and completely easy to read, but i'm totally obsessed with small-world stuff and also with how trends begin. it helped me through the tough questions of "who the hell decided uggs were cool?"
ooh i want to know about uggs, too, so i will probably read this book. i love that your review is mostly negative and then you're like "four stars yeah!" but i'm kind of the same with gladwell-- i sort of enjoyed "blink" (in a yelling-at-the-tv kind of way) but i also thought it was silly.
actually, i take that back. your review wasn't necessarily "mostly negative". 'frothy' could be a compliment-- for example, if you were describing a cappuccino. and the uggs thing is actually a major selling point because seriously WHY?
i think a "yelling-at-the-tv" kind of way is the PERFECT description because so much of the book was like, "okay, dude, we get it, shit's connected," but i still enjoyed it. and frothy wasn't intended positively or negatively necessarily. just...descriptively.
I read The Tipping Point when it first came out since I'm interested not just in things like why uggs (or hush puppies) became fads, but how to influence/implement social change. I enjoyed it at the time, but I've been surprised at how often I refer back to it when I think about what I should do within organizations/community to help create the outcomes that I want. It was the book that I most often recommended to people the year that it came out.
you were actually the one who recommended it to me. and i feel like now i'm coming off as though i didn't enjoy reading it, which i did. i think if i found myself in a position to be able to use more of the concepts, it might come up more often.
no, your review was perfectly nice. my comment was just snarkier than i intended. it's all my fault! and i haven't even read it! although now i want to!
No worry. I didn't feel dissed by your not being as wowed by the book as I was. You know what an odd world view I have!
