Book Report 04/21/08

Gladwell, Malcom. The Tipping Point. New York. Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company: 2000.

I chose this book as i was looking through the New York Times best seller lists as I recently started looking for and reading books that have been on the list as most of those books are very interesting to read, it's written style and the content is strikingly similar to "Freakanomics" and it deals about how the world works differently than we thought just like "Freakanomics" and I think as soon as I found out, I got a deeper interest to keep reading the book.

As the book is similar to "Freakanomics", it doesn't necessarily have a plot in a sense that there are characters that develop in a setting in chronological order, but it gives various case-by-case, study on how there was a tipping point in each of these cases that made a certain item or subject become famous or recognizable. Examples of these were Hush Puppies, the t.v. shows "Sesame Street", and "Blue's Clues", and t.v. advertisements.

The Tipping Point had no character that was actually made, but the book as being in a different style of the current generation, it was a good book with no characters involved.

As I have read "Freakanomics" before, this book was highly enjoyable as it brought back the memories of how enjoyable "Freakanomics" were and "The Tipping Point" was just as good. Though it was very good I would recommend "Freakanomics" over "The Tipping Point", for reasons I'm not sure of.

I think that this book is really important to read as it can possibly have a life changing impact on the way people would view the world and become more aware of their actions, and I think that reading a book that gives various insight on how situations come with a miraculous result come to be helps people see the world's unexplainables in to an explainable one.

Malcom Gladwell is currently working as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and he has another #1 New York Times bestseller list with a title "Blink" and I'm hoping to read that book as well.