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  • Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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  • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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What the Dog Saw

Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?

In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.

Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

"Good writing", Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head". What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.

©2009 Malcolm Gladwell (P)2009 Hachette Audio

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Light but Compelling

In keeping with Malcolm Gladwell's typical style, What the Dog Saw provides some details and insights into a mixture of offbeat stories that tend to escape our attention.

This book would be a good introduction to Gladwell's work, and would be another welcome edition for those who have listened to/read him before.

Gladwell also makes for an excellent narrator who makes the book read more like a conversation than a recitation.

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Just wonderful

I just love Malcolm Gladwell. I could listen to him all day. Just brilliantly written.

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Entertaining

So glad I listened to this book. Very entertaining and easy to listen to, pure pleasure!

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Typical Gladwell Brilliance

he is good at what he does.

I like that he reads his own work.

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Excellent

Malcolm is one of the best.
The angle that he sees any notion is amazing.

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Nice collection!

Gladwell doesn’t disappoint! Even if some of this material is a little dated, there is a lot of useful insight to our thought processes. It’s one of those books that I’ll run again in a year to see what new things I can get from it.

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Great reference material and theme.

I like how the author tells stories to enlighten views on a variety of topics.

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If you listened to Paul Harvey on the radio years ago. Malcolm Gladwell is his modern version, going through dozens of well known events in recent history that left an impression on your way of thinking and seeing the world, except without the media spin, propaganda, excluded facts that often are part of an official narrative which will profoundly change your opinion of the events, and what's more çreates a healthy skepticism of the information we consume. Almost all mainstream "news" is a version of truth.

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great book

I always love his books and they always have you looking at things differently. really a book for anyone that loves cool facts about history, psychology or just seeing things from a different perspective.

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Good stories

How about chapter titles? We don’t know anything about them than a number until we listen.

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