What do the following have in common: An inexperienced girls basketball team coached by a software developer originally from Mumbai, a cancer researcher with a Dickens-like childhood of loss and neglect who goes on to develop the most effective treatment for childhood leukemia, a Civil Rights activist/strategist who worked with Martin Luther King in Birmingham, and a small mountain village in France that stood up to the Nazi occupation. These are just some of the many stories that Malcolm Gladwell relates to the famous story […]
There’s no need to fear! Underdog is here!
This was my second foray into the world of Malcolm Gladwell during the Cannonball and it’s not the last. I really enjoy his books and the way he reads them. Gladwell performs his own narration which I believe improves the quality of an audio book. Gladwell is a smooth, easy reader with an inviting tone. David and Goliath discusses how there may be inherent advantages in perceived disadvantages. Right away, the conclusions are loose and not definitive in anyway but I do not think hat […]
Trying hard to sensationalize common sense.
Twenty-fifth book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. This is the third time I’ve tried to read Malcolm Gladwell and I’m sorry to say that I’m still not impressed. First one I tried was Blink. I grew tired of it really quickly (I want to make a ‘blink of an eye’ pun but I feel sad for Gladwell) as it just had a lot of trivia without really going anywhere. There was nothing substantial to be had there. Next came Tipping Point and it bored […]