Here is why.
Here is why.
5 responses to “All Sujatha wants for Christmas is a book by Malcom Gladwell”
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Pssstt….Actually, I want a Ford pickup truck, not a book! What happened to the Blogad covering up Joe’s post on labels and autism?
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I am reading Stephen Pinker’s review of the book and chuckling over Gladwell’s mistake about “igon values”. Does the man never speak to his parents about his work? His father, who “has written five books on mathematical theory”, would have set him straight in an instant. I have a thing about incompetent editors and know-it-all authors who don’t care to verify. Pinker goes further …
“In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this The Igon Value Problem : When a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong.”LikeLike
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I presumed that the post was referring to his latest – “What the Dog Saw, And Other Adventures”. Pinker’s review is in the NYT Book Review, Nov 15, 2009.
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Awesome parody from Greg Brown. Thanks Sujatha — I think Malcolm Gladwell is turning into the Andy Rooney of our generation.
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I also really like Malcolm Gladwell… I hope you will get the book. Keep sharing.
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