From jdhedlund's library, I chose The Tipping Point, which I have been meaning to read for quite a while and have just not gotten to yet.
A lot of people were saying last year that The Tipping Point would influence a lot of people by letting them know how small efforts can lead to great changes.
A lot of people were saying last year that The Tipping Point would influence a lot of people by letting them know how small efforts can lead to great changes.
#37: that's a nice little pile!
I read both The tipping point (recently) and The wisdom of no escape (a long time ago), and I would recommend them both, they are both inspirational, although No escape is more personal and Tipping point more societal, but they both leave you thinking: Yes! I'm ...
37- The Tipping Point is fantastic!
Ive got in my tbr pile:
The Sky's the Limit
The Tipping Point
The Places That Scare You
Collapse
The Wisdom of No Escape
There are 200+ books of mine tagged tbr. I felt pretty bad until I searched on the tbr tag and found I don't even make the list of top users of the tag--the ...
Great question!
I would say some of my favorites are Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, The Holy Bible, and any memoir that makes me laugh...like Trespassers Will Be Baptized.
I am currently reading an awesome biography on John Dillinger (which, for some reason, doesn't show up with a ...
the Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
Any of the Michael Holroyd biographies
All Eric Newby travel books
that's what springs to mind in the middle of the night, having been woken simultaneously by drunk guys in the street and the cat coughing!
... epi person he dealt with was an obstacle. I wasn't really impressed.
I would add to the list of books Innumeracy and The Tipping Point for their usefulness in explaining some issues to laymen.
... much so it's kind of bring it all together in one place. I was hoping it would be more like Freakonomics, Blink, or the Tipping Point where it is sort of build around chapter long examples, it's more interesting that way.
So last week I said I was starting Tipping Point, which I did, and was trying to hold off reading Lean Mean Thirteen, which I didn't. Hold off, that is. Plowed through it in one night, of course, annoying my partner, just laughing and shaking the bed.
Back to Tipping Point this week, as well ...
... recent books on the subject of social cognition, such as Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point and Blink, as well as some earlier fare by Thomas Gilovich in How We Know What Isn't So, etc.? I might even add that some other science books have ...
... are hot topics, with everyone taking their own unique angle to say the same thing. This is a good one. Now moving on to The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Trying to hold off before reading Lean Mean Thirteen.
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
I just couldn't get into The Tipping Point even after reading the reviews on here, and having a friend who doesn't read much mention it was what she just finished.
While perhaps I should have picked up a non-fiction title since that's what I abandoned, I picked up number six in the Stephanie Plu ...
... Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. ...
... Beverly Cleary Sculpture Park and walking down the real Klickitat Street when we are in Oregon?
I think I am starting The Tipping Point next. Apparently there is a wait list for it at the library.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
... which include:
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Playing for Pizza
My Sister's Keeper
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Tipping Point
and one of my favorite books of all time and perfect for the group read on immigration-The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down
>57 I enjoyed your review, Detail_Muse, and I'm also a big fan of Gladwell's The Tipping Point! I want to read more authors like Gladwell, who make non-fic reading so much fun.
A yay and a nay from last week's reading. I loved The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell’s terrifically readable theory of the factors that combine and cause some emerging trends to catch fire and spread. Gladwell’s strength is his ability to separate and illustrate the factors through ...
... I think, and you can tell she hasn't yet reached the peak of her considerable writing powers. Still very enjoyable.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. Not sure if it's worth all the hoopla, but I certainly enjoyed reading it and ...
... to weed out their competition in order to make up for their decreased ability to innovate.
There's a chapter in The Tipping Point that talks about how businesses become managerially inefficient once they reach a certain size. I think it would be very hard for anyone to name any ...
... information in the remaining 100 pages ... but for now it's back on my shelf in exchange (finally!) for Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, which makes a nice little breeze as the pages turn themselves.
... Drucker
There is a very good example of the way Connectors function in the work of the sociologist Mark Granovetter.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
... I don't know what it is about her writer's voice, but I'm always impelled forward. I'd like to rush through the end of the The Tipping Point, which I had left up here over Christmas. I've also started The English Patient and Enfance by Nathalie Sarraute, but I haven't gotten far with them. I ...
... through the above posts. I am surprised that no one recommended Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, or Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I read those in the last couple of years and they were so well written, researched and ...
50 BOOK CHALLENGE #6
BOOK: The Tipping Point
AUTHOR: Malcolm Gladwell
YEAR: 2002 (Back Bay Books, paperback ed.)
PAGES: 301
GENRE: non-fiction, sociology
RATING: 4.5 stars out of 5
My TBR list is so large that it is no longer a goal, but more of a path. I've tried to say I won' ...
Just finished The Tipping Point. It's billed as a business book, but it's fascinating for anyone into sociology, group psychology, whatever. It's also very readable.
I'm now in the beginning of Craze: Gin and Bebauchery in the Age of Reason.
... Gregory
I'm also looking to finally finish
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Maximum City - Suketu Mehta
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor
... (*****)
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (***)
The Quantum Zoo by Marcus Chown (deferred)
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (*****)
The Zen of Eating by Ronna Kabatznick (***)
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin (***)
... by Michael Pollan (***)
The Omnivore's Dilemma# by Michael Pollan (*****)
The Power of Now# by Eckhart Tolle (***)
The Tipping Point# by Malcolm Gladwell (*****) (See review)
The Zen of Eating# by Ron ...
I’m taking the 888 Challenge: "Read 8 books each in 8 different categories in 2008."
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Edited to move remainder of post to LT's 888 Challenge group.
I have added The Tipping Point to my greedy reading. This makes this week, as of today:
The Other Boleyn Girl
Living History
The Proust that I will be reading for the next five & half months
Olive Kitteridge
Ada, or Ardor
Out of control....
#92: Method of suicide is definitely a culturally transmitted phenomenon. Gladwell's The Tipping Point has a chapter devoted to describing how suicide culture took off in Micronesia, where the predominant form of suicide is by self-strangulation.
... Complete IEP Guide, by Lawrence Siegel
10. Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women, by Caryl Rivers
11. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
12. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath
13. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America, by ...
... in church history: Out of the Flames
277 Christian church in North America: Blue Like Jazz
302 Social interaction: The Tipping Point
304 Factors affecting social behavior: The World Without Us
306 Culture & institutions: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
322 Relation of ...
... of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
301 Sociology and Anthropology - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
302 Social Interaction - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
303 Social Processes - The Future Dictionary of America
305 Social Groups - Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girl ...
... were suggested to me:
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones et al.
The Elegant Un ...
I think I recall Baltimore being mentioned in The Tipping Point, with reference to policing techniques.
Thirding (or fourthing?) The Archivist by Martha Cooley. I also enjoyed The Librarian by Larry Beinhart which, despite the title, actually is about a guy who works as an archivist! Political and funny, I recommend it.
Just started The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell ... very good already. Also started Shantaram this week. That one ought to keep me busy for a while!
Just finished Blink-The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. I liked The Tipping Point ( Gladwell's first book) much better. I also read The Irish Game-A True Story of Crime and Art by Matthew Hart. It was a very interesting read on stolen art and the eventual ...
... and Blink-the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell this past weekend. I liked Gladwell's first book The Tipping Point better. I always enjoy reading investigative books about art thefts and Hart's book was very entertaining.
... Without Thinking, but I wasn't very impressed. There were a few overstatements even within those pages and after reading The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I'm not sure that I want to go back to the other. Not that I've read Freakonomics, but your complaint ...
... ing
29. A Rulebook for Arguments
30. On Guerrilla Warfare (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
31. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
32. The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq
33. Managing Projects (Pocket Mentor)
34. Getting T ...
The End of the Line
The Life of Pi Somebody was bound to say this!
The Tipping Point
The Inner Circle
Longitude by Dava Sobel
... an all-time high.
In addition to finding all 4 books required for daughter #1's summer reading, I bought for myself:
- The Tipping Point
- Wide Sargasso Sea
>JustAGirl
I have Blink in my TBR pile. I'm going to recommend The Tipping Point to friends who volunteer for charitable organizations!
... Blink yet? It's Malcolm Gladwell's most recent paperback. It's a bit partchy but utterly fascinating in parts.
The Tipping Point (weird, when I mis-spelled Tipping Point the Touchstone found the right book, when I corrected my typing it chose a different book entirely) is in my TBR ...
... and Leaves by Lynne Truss and thought it was terrific! Lots of fun and informative about punctuation.Today I read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell I think that his theories are worth looking at by anyone dealing with change in an organization.
Went to Costco for plants and flashlights ( nifty wind-up one with radio and port to use for cell phone) and got as well The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni. I can't pass up books that I have on my "to buy" list that are half price. I ...
I read The Tipping Point and Blinkby the same author. Rudolph Guilliano's book about his time as mayor of New York suggests he also read The Tipping Point!
I've just finished Three Day Road and Rare Birds; two Canadian novels. I am about to start The Inheritance of Loss which won the ...
... bit crazy this month already :)
Ordered from Chapters and received yesterday:
Sips of Blood by by Mary Ann Mitchell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Shadows of War by Robert Gandt (for hubby)
And at Goodwill this afternoon:
The Kis ...
I'm reading The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and Murder Book by Richard Rayner.
... I have read have been those that have reached a critical mass of popularity in the Blogosphere (I'm thinking of books like Tipping Point, Getting Things Done, Freakonomics). I hate feeling left out.
How do *you* choose what book to read next?
The Tipping Point and Tuesdays with Morrie...
Both were way over hyped.
...
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tllburg Clark.
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
jargoneer: I agree that Crowley's low output is a problem in this context, but for me not having Little, Big and Engine Summer would be a worse problem!
Moorcock is an interesting choice, and he has a couple of books that I love (Mother London and the Pyat Quartet, although I'm not sure I ...
Okay, so I've read a few so far this year:
1. Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (288p) - a really interesting read, and probably, on balance, better than Blink. I'll have to come back to some of the finer points later, and read up some of his references; they might be useful for my ...
>19 mcdee, I hope you'll weigh in with an opinion about Little, Big when you're done. It's a book that elicits strong opinions, and I'm always interested to hear strong opinions. Seems to be a Thingamabrarian trait, that...having and airing and even inviting others to share strong opinions.
I ...
... does bracketing Little, Big make the touchstone into "The Tipping Point"
I'd guess it's because the full title of The Tipping Point is "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". I don't know exactly how the algorithm that picks the touchstones ...
...
None of these books sound all that exciting to me, so I'll go
with whatever is picked. I'd give the slight edge to Little, big,,
though.
OK, that's my vote, for what it's worth.
Why does bracketing Little, Big make the touchstone into "The Tipping Point",
I wonder?
I'll second Tane and go with Over Sea, Under Stone. I've read Wicked and was unimpressed, and Little, Big just doesn't sound all that appealing to me right now.
BUT ... as always, I'll be happy to go with the flow because I almost never contribute to the discussions. LOL. (I just like ...
Avaland (#95), I have to go with Little, Big--it's one of my all time favorite books. And yes, I have to brush up on the Aegypt quartet, too. It's a pleasure to read such beautifully crafted novels, when so many books are shoddily written.
I finished The Tipping Point and really enjoyed it - I love social psychology and it was great to see some good experiments been put to use - really an interesting and well written book. I am now reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbabra Kingslover and am 100 pages in - so far I am enjoying it ...
... Evening Land is an exceptional novel, really one of his best, though by no means is it in the same class as his classic Little, Big.
My taste in fantasy tends toward the "urban fantasy" type. My favorite fantasy author is John Crowley (esp. Little, Big), closely followed by Jonathon Carrol. My favorite Carrol book is probably Sleeping in Flames. I also like Alice Hoffman and Charles de Lint.
... made the book very sad and touching. The supernatural element too me was very surprising - a good read
I am now reading The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and am finding it well written and interesting. I am now preparing my reading list for 2007 over at the list of bests
How did we get to 16 messages without any touchstones? Is this ironic?
... Pratchett
Sabriel by Garth Nix
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Little, Big by John Crowley
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
Warlock in Spite of Himself by Ch ...
... better take on the ideas driving Freakonomics without descending to the specifics that make Freakonomics distasteful. Even The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell is a more satisfying read, provided you don't make the mistake of believing that Gladwell's ideas could predict anything (he has ...
... Dubner.
An interesting take on the dismal science.
Also:
http://www.gladwell.com
Malcolm Gladwell of Tipping Point and Blink fame.
Two books I find interesting in the GTD world:
The Tipping Point, which isn't specific to GTD, but has a similar "how do people really think and work" feel to it. And an old classic that I love, Time Management for Writers, which I don't think I can ever part with, even though it's a little ...
Well its sad that you can't stand up for Little Big without actually insulting the people who don't like it.
People are allowed to have different opinions and to assume that anyone who doesn't like it is because they are stupid, lazy and only interested in overblown fantasy clichés is a ...
I've read The Tipping Point, and while it was interesting, I don't know that it's really all that related to "the imminent collapse of civilization".
Basically, it takes the principles of epidemiology (spread rate, infection rates, transmission, etc.) and attempts to apply them to ideas, fads, ...
I'm trying a touchstone even though I don't own the Tipping Point...
I've heard the book is good, but ever since it came out, the phrase has been over used. I swear it's in every editorial and on every news program. As a news junky, it means I'm bombarded on a daily basis.
I do love Jare ...
I loved Freakanomics! Very fun. The names part was my favorite. It's in the same category as Blink and Tipping Point. On a tangent, try Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic.
