What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Ratings93
Average rating3.8
What the Dog Saw – 3.5 Stars:
This is a fairly disjointed collection of pieces. Maybe there’s a common theme, but it’s feeble, and the overall quality is definitely below what I expect from Gladwell.
The first part was excruciatingly uninteresting, but I pushed through and eventually found some good stuff in the later sections.
The usual criticism of Gladwell—handpicking evidence to prove his point—is less of a problem here, since the book lacks a big central thesis, instead offering small, loosely connected ones.
Not a terrible book, but maybe an unnecessary one.
What the Dog Saw – 3.5 Stars:
This is a fairly disjointed collection of pieces. Maybe there’s a common theme, but it’s feeble, and the overall quality is definitely below what I expect from Gladwell.
The first part was excruciatingly uninteresting, but I pushed through and eventually found some good stuff in the later sections.
The usual criticism of Gladwell—handpicking evidence to prove his point—is less of a problem here, since the book lacks a big central thesis, instead offering small, loosely connected ones.
Not a terrible book, but maybe an unnecessary one.
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