A review by waterbear0821
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

3.25

This was good and interesting but oh-so-bleak and the whole dang book should be a trigger warning. The impetus for the book was the author’s preoccupation with the death of Sandra Bland, and he goes about describing the worst results of every betrayal that can be perpetrated and every misunderstanding humans can have, starting with Hitler and not getting any more upbeat from there. Learning about spies and con men is interesting but it leaves me feeling wrung out. And the rest of the book was even more disgusting and heartbreaking. It’s interesting to be sure. But did I learn anything I can apply to my life? Maybe this was a fitting opus for Sandra Bland’s horrible and needless death. Human beings are the worst. 
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