Re:Good Riddance to Long Books
by spoonjim on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:18PM
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Malcom Gladwell books are like this. He started out as a magazine writer and was excellent at it, his New Yorker articles are delightful. When he started writing books they just ended up being the ideas of a magazine article in book length.
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Re:Good Riddance to Long Books
by driscoll42 on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:34PM
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This is why I find Outliers incredibly overrated. The core idea is fine, quite good even. But the fact that the book is 336 pages when it could probably be 20-50 at the most just kills the joy of reading it.