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Book Reviews of 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
Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN-13: 9780316299220
ISBN-10: 0316299227
Publication Date: 9/28/2021
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1
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.