nighthawks456's review
2.0
2.5 Started out intriguing but got stale after a few chapters. Tl;dr: mystery = "ooh shiny!" and humans like "ooh shiny", the thrill is the chase, etc. etc. I want Malcolm Gladwell to rewrite this book and give it more nuance.
apatrick's review
2.0
Lehrer doesn't really succeed in pulling together a bunch of essay ideas and turning them into a book. This is really just some tenuously related non-fiction pieces collected into one volume. It wasn't memorable. I read it less than a month ago and I can't even remember any of the interesting points. Something about how we are intrigued by stuff we don't know. Um, yeah. I dunno. pass.
melodyriggs's review
informative
fast-paced
4.25
Great book about why we are drawn to mystery and the importance of being okay with the unknown.
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