Book: What the Dog Saw
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Pages: 448
This is my 140th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
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 up about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzlinginventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeii, the king of the American kitcen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
This was a very interesting book. I do like Malcolm Gladwell - this is my second book by him I have read just this year. He is a good writer and the topics throughout this book give you a lot to think about. Good insight, good research, and great writing.
Stars: 4.5
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