What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
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- ISBN13: 9780316075848
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What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we know our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from TheNew Yorker over the same period.
Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce lead the way Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the “dog whisperer” who can cool savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and “hindsight bias” and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
“Excellent writing,” Gladwell says in his preface, “does not make it or fail on the might of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the might of its ability to engage you, to make you reflect, to give you a glimpse into a name else’s head.”What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the bright and breezy spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.
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If you are looking for a review of the content here, sorry I cannot help since two of the CDs I received have long scratches that cause them to skip or hang. The jamming of CDs into hard cardboard packages stacked 2×2 has to stop. Many of the audio book publishers are doing this to raise profits and lower costs. I will pay two dollars more for CDs that are usable!
Sorry to distract anyone looking for an audiobook review.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I just bought what the dog saw and i just like it!!! his writing is so simple to get into straight away – i am just about done w/ the book and i just ongoing – very appealing – insightful – i look forwards to more!!!!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
All the pieces in “What the Dog Saw” came from previous Gladwell articles published in “The New Yorker” and are grouped into three categories – about obsessives and minor geniuses (eg. Ron Popeil, of Chop-O-Matic fame), theories (eg. homelessness, financial scandals), and wondering about predictions we make about people. I made a serious effort to like this latest Gladwell book, having briefly seen a word I like while scanning the book at Costco – ‘investment.’
No luck. There are two problems with Gladwell’s book. 1)He addresses topics of minimal interest or consequence. (Who cares why mustard now comes in dozens of varieties, while ketchup has stayed the same? As for Ron Popeil – I despise salespeople; most of them spend their lives convincing people to do things they really don’t want to do, or shouldn’t do. 2)Gladwell adds nothing useful to the world while considering these useless questions. (Not surprising, when you reflect about it.) I did come away, but, with a renewed understanding of why I’ve never liked “The New Yorker” – even when bored to death waiting for my parents to place the home of one of their friends. As for Gladwell, I’m not going to try reading his material anymore – a name should take his pen and paper, laptop, desktop, typewriter, dictating machine, and secretary away.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is truly an brilliant book from an brilliant writer. But, this book is a far weep from teaching you how to can benefit from such thinking. On top of that, enough with the commentary already, where are the practical tools that can teach us effective economic thinking summarized in a one-to-ten bullet points list? The reason for it is that if you truly want to learn how to make money in this world you either need Ivy League degree, incredible business savvy or need to read the works of Toby Crabel, Linda Rasche – professional futures/stock traders that make living trading the market daily. Their books are very expensive because they do not write for a living, but trade for a living. I had to go find them on Ebay or Amazon. But, their writing is more all ears on the techniques and ways to profit and trade any security, any time. Being very successful in this space myself, it takes a real book from a real trader these days to impress me. The reason i gave it 2 stars, is because the leader has set the bar so high already, it would take another incredible book (like the first one he unrestricted) to give him a top status.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
As I walked into my local Limits, I cast a casual glance at the New Book section and caught a glimpse of Gladwell’s new “Messianic Verses”. With a copy of his penultimate book “Outliers” still fresh on my shelf, I keenly grabbed “What the Dog Saw” and sat down to a cup of Seattles Best coffee.
As I got about middle through the Ron Popeil chapter, I muttered, “wait a minute”, had I selected a biography in error? I stirred on to the Nassim Taleb chapter which was a bit more appealing, perhaps owing to my point interest in the theme (I work in Finance).
I started flipping through the book in near frustration trying to catch anything that would excite my intellect (as the prior books had). Nothing!! I gently clogged the book and quietly slipped out of the bookstore to avoid that amusing “you user” look form the store clerks.
I came home and went right to Amazon reviews to guage reactions on the book. I have to say on reading the reviews, every doubt I may harbor about a notional “Cult of Gladwell” has been buried. That anyone can compare this to his prior works, or offer a full-throated recommendation, is a mystery to me – unless of course this board is infested with “shills” planted by Gladwell’s publisher.
As to recommendation, my position ought to be evident.
Okey
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5