A review by paolina
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

challenging informative medium-paced

3.0

While the topics discussed were engaging, im not really sure what the conclusions were supposed to be other than: you can't "read" a stranger because you know nothing about them, and people lie so be skeptical but not TOO skeptical or else society will crumble. The book made some good points, but overall was contradictory. Humans always "default to truth" and believe others, unless of course, those others are talking about sexual abuse, then we don't believe them at all. If I got anything out of this book, is that we should be skeptical. So I'm skeptical of this book.
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