#26 - Malcolm Gladwell

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It's been a while since I've posted here, so I've got some catching up to do. (I finished book #30 last night and am halfway through at least three more.)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Penguin, 2006)

I'm not sure what to say about this book. It's not that I disliked it - it was certainly an easy, interesting read. It's just that nothing really leapt out at me (except for having already taken the Project Implicit test in a couple different versions, and thus finding the explanation a tad laboured and Gladwell's own result curious? fascinating? (not sure of the word I want to use) compared to my own.)

However, I'm certainly now inspired to follow up The Tipping Point, as well as reading his articles in The New Yorker. So if nothing else, Blink has added an author to my "keep an eye out" list.