Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink is the best, most thought-provocative book I’ve read in a long time. What it contributes to our understanding of prejudice should be mandatory reading for everyone and the rest of it was interesting too. Every chapter had me fascinated. The only knock on the book is that it doesn’t really manage to draw the different pieces together into any kind of cohesive framework. Probably it’s not possible. We can’t live without our snap judgements, and we may be able to improve our snap judgement making ability, but snap judgements have their downside too. That would be the summary – not so interesting, I know. But the detail was riveting.
I’ll be recommending this to everyone I know. I wish I’d read it as part of a reading group so I had someone to talk to about it. Every page could start a conversation.