Sunday, June 11, 2006

Tipping Point : Review

More than the book, I would call it review of the author. In one line, I liked it. Being lazy, since I didn't write comments earlier, I might have forgotten some.

I like the way the author is away from redundant statements. He may use examples to put one point across, but won't write long sentences with complicated words which would ultimately mean the same thing (e.g. the way Amartya Sen does it).

And I felt I have some chemistry match with the author.

For example, I remember while reading a particular paragraph I was thinking he is talking about obvious things, and the next line I reads "It may sound very obvious at first glance."
In another case I was getting a chilling feeling that how can someone talk about suicide in this way. The next line says "There is something chilling about this passage. Suicides aren't supposed to be trivialized like this". I feel good in situation where I can relate with the author. It also shows that at every point author has kept the reader in mind.

And if you like observing psychologies of different people in day to day life, the book continually feeds you with them. Very interesting observations.