Alison Phillips Phillips itibaren Witoldowo, Polonya itibaren Witoldowo, Polonya

This book was OK, and just OK. I remember several years ago when it seemed like everyone was reading it. After finally struggling through it myself, I can't understand what all the hype was about. There wasn't one section of this book that truly interested me. In fact, most of it felt very phony. I felt like Gladwell just found a bunch of studies that he thought were interesting and forced them all together into his "theory". Though all his claims may very well be accurate, they felt forced to me, and I wasn't buying it. One of his biggest mistakes was claiming that "Blue's Clues" is a stickier show than "Sesame Street". Blue's Clues lasted what, a couple of years, and then it totally tanked. Meanwhile, Sesame Street is still going strong. Gladwell claimed he was describing epidemics, but what he was really describing were fads. I also couldn't buy in to his claim that you can engineer social epidemics. The only example he really provided was the woman who used hair salon's to pass on her message about cancer. And all he said about her strategy was that "it worked". No description of how well it worked (but that's probably because it didn't really work well at all). The "tipping point" for me in this book was when Gladwell claimed that we can't stop kids from experimenting with drugs, so we should make experimentation safe. I almost stopped reading right then and there. Who is this guy to claim that teenagers are incapable of having any self control?! I happen to know a ton of teenagers who never experimented with drugs, including me, and I find his claim arrogant and offensive. The more I think about this book the more I want to poke holes in it. I'd better stop writing or I'm going to rate it even lower.