Comments on: Cowen on Gladwell

By: steven

steven — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:56:23 +0000

Agree completely with Will. An enjoyable, easy read, but a little “light.”

By: Wil

Wil — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:45:36 +0000

I flashed though Gladwell’s book today in a “Borders” bookstore in Seattle. “Border’s” had the book in the self help category, which was odd… It was very easy to read quickly, but enjoyable, with lots of entertaining anecdotes. The stories of Bill Gates, the Beatles in Hamburg, and others were used to illustrate his concepts about how Outliers achieve mastery. There is a novel explaination of why so many Asian students are good at math. This book will likely not be not scholarly enough for many, but not deserving of a bad review. It is the perfect book for my eighteen year old.

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:43:10 +0000

Nathan Glazer kind of snarked “Who’s” in a TNR review online today.

By: bennett

bennett — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:17:48 +0000

How come the NYTimes never reviewed “Who’s Your City?” Perhaps you should be grateful…