How do you like Gladwell?

I read the three of the four books of his you mentioned hear, starting with Outlier, then Blinks, and I almost failed to finish Tipping Point. After that, I refuse to read any of his books, though sometimes I still skim over his essays in New Yorker. He is definitely a good writer. But to better himself, I strongly feel he needs to improve his logic and basic knowledge in statistics.

Read a couple of books in The Best New American Voices. They are too comtemporary in style and too advanced in language that I could only manage to get the main idea of the authors and a brief summary of each writing. Though the reading process was struggling, I feel I learned more from those works than from Gladwell's book.

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• thought provoking way to explain social phenomena -englishreader- ♂ (2021 bytes) () 11/15/2009 postreply 09:21:16