| Title | What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures | |
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company | |
| Amazon Book Price | $17.97 Link | List $27.99 |
| Audible Audio Price | $13.32 Link | List $18.89 |
| Genre | Journalism, Essays | |
| Web Page/Blog | http://malcolmgladwell.com/ | |
| Malcolm Gladwell’s “What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures” is a compilation of the author’s best work from his column at New Yorker Magazine. I found the book interesting and great fodder for small talk at parties. Finding out the amazing facts of hair dye, ketchup, and infomercial rotisserie ovens, will create provocative conversation at the water cooler and provide compelling insights that may change the way you look at things. While there were a couple of dreary chapters that went on too long, overall the book was insightful and just plain fun to listen to. |
| Audio Quality | Good | 5.0 |
| Content | Author’s Essays From New Yorker Magazine | 4.5 |
| Narration | By The Author: Very Good | 4.5 |
| Story Organization | Very Well Organized | 4.5 |
| Stickiness | Thought Provoking: Very Sticky | 4.5 |
| Impression | Collection of Interesting Stories | 4.5 |
| Recommendation | Insightful Listen. You’ll Learn Something | 4.5 |
| Overall | Malcolm Gladwell at His Best | 4.5 |
Quotation: “You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.”
Publisher’s Summary
Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology.
Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many different kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup; a surprising assessment of what makes for a safer automobile; a look at how we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job; an examination of machine built to predict hit movies; the reasons why homelessness might be easier to solve than manage; his famous profile of inventor and entrepreneur Ron Popeil; a look at why employers love personality tests; a dissection of Ivy League admissions and who gets in; the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie; and a look at hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America.
For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation-a mix tape from America’s alpha mind
©2009 Malcolm Gladwell; (P)2009 Hachette
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