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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? — Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316299220
ISBN-10: 0316299227
Publication Date: 9/28/2021
Pages: 416
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3.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 39
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If you enjoy Malcolm Gladwell's trademark narrative method of long, long, long descriptive anecdotes, you'll find it here. But for me the book felt bloated and pointless. Using a bunch of unrelated stories, Gladwell makes a lot of negative points fairly well, but doesn't connect the dots effectively. So there are no positive takeaways - things you can do differently to get different results from the poor people in his stories.

Overall, a huge disappointment.


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