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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

28 reviews

cb4242's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

0.25

This was one of the worst takes on sexual assault I have ever read and it made me so disgusted

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rudito's review against another edition

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sad medium-paced

Just actually awful. The most cookie cutter pseudoscientific crap I have ever had to read on top of borderline apologia for SA and child abuse. No idea why my university made an entire freshman year read this awful book.

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chloethonus's review against another edition

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informative sad medium-paced

1.25

Misleading title and incredibly clumsy execution. I like Gladwell typically but this book just reads as being willfully incompetent.

If the book started in the direction of "this language barrier upon the Spaniards meeting the Aztecs created a misunderstanding repeated even in common history" I could maybe understand it and would be interested in reading about miscommunications in history. But instead we get blaming people killed by the police as "not knowing how to talk to strangers", a man raping a woman as "misreading cues because he was drunk". I genuinely cannot believe any positive reviews are actually buying this pseudopsychology built on a foundation less stable than sand. Any jab at critical thinking makes these concepts of "bad things happen because we suck at social skills" deflate like a sad balloon. Cannot believe I actually wasted my time trying to search for any ounce of a good point.

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annaroses's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.5

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yetanotherbookstagram's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.25

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didireadthat's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I really liked listening to the author narrate his own book. I think adding the theme song and actors or real transcripts really added to the story telling. I didn’t read too much about the content of the book before I started listening and sometimes didn’t feel emotionally prepared for the topics but I also think that made them even more impactful.

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