I read it before Christmas. Lina, I was uncomfortable reading the last part of the book too. I was suprised he went there.

The stereotypical "all asians are good at math" combined with an explanation that it's pure ethnocentric behavior over any natural inclination towards aptitude was a little strange,,,,,,IMO.

After I read it I was all: "NO he di int...."

I did enjoy the book until about halfway through. I would describe it as intellectual pop culture lite.


I enjoyed reading Blink and The Tipping Point much more. Ultimately I prefer Steven Levitt's writing style a little more for this "genre" of book, Freakonomics was much more research driven.

I found Outliers to be interesting but too anecdotal for my taste.