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Overall, most of the book was interesting, but the authors have a tendency to digress and go on a few tangents. Often, it takes them a while to make their actual point for a particular chapter. The chapter on prostitution to me was the most interesting. The last one on global warming, while it raises some interesting ideas, was just too long and overdone. By this point in the book, I was just waiting for the book to end. A little editing could have helped. On the positive, it is not a terribly l
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Who wouldn't want to read a book that explains why the price of oral sex has dropped so significally, why terrorists should buy life insurance, and why a street prostitute is like a department-store Santa? By the way, the answer to the first question is that since the advent of the sexual revolution, so many women are willing to have sex for free that the competition has caused prices to drop. Who knew? I loved Freakonomics and this book runs a close second. And to think that I dreaded taking ec
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There were some interesting parts, but I didn't like it as much as similar works by Malcolm Gladwell.
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Just as good as the original. There was an odd thread throughout the book in which they borrowed from other recently popular books by Tom Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, but they always managed to add their own spin to it. The writing is still great and the epilogue might have been my favorite part of the book.
Not nearly as good as the first book. They never really finish one of their stories.
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