What the Dog Saw: An Exploration of Fascinating and Unusual Experiences

Selvam S: Nice book

India on Aug 16, 2023

Krs Vee: The media could not be loaded.  See video review. Please take price tags off next time so I at least feel like I got a deal

Canada on Jul 13, 2023

Jannis Duckek: I love this book - startet two days ago and can’t stop since!

Germany on May 17, 2023

Lise Giguere: la personne qui l'a reçu était contente mais je n'en sais pas plus

Canada on May 06, 2023

Nitin Goswami: I am at fault, the book appeared very lengthy and I am unable to take away anything from this like the previous books of Mr. Gladwell.
Guess this should be read in couple of sitting in order to gain wisdom.

Last chapter on dogs will surely leave a scar in my head, will be careful around agressive dogs.

Rest, it's gladwell's book. There is always something for everyone.

India on Aug 30, 2022

R. DelParto: Malcolm Gladwell has written four thought-provoking books on the human condition and related to practical subjects and topics but what has been different about his perspectives is that he has included in the equation a critical eye within a case study approach. And he himself can be topic of discussion, especially with What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures. The book may be a retrospective of his past writings that were published in The New Yorker in 1996 and to 2008. If one has not read or come across any of the articles, they are a very insightful collection.

Gladwell kindly explains in the preface of the book of his purpose for offering readers a glimpse of what he has written in the past decade. And with over 400 pages of enlightening essays in the Gladwell tradition, he takes an idea and he runs with it with a slew of intellectual curiosity that moves into various directions in the process that is not locked into one particular topic; most of what he writes about spans from education, politics, social, economic, cultural, and historical frameworks. But he knows exactly where his thoughts will eventually land with his clear goals explained within the beginning of the...

United States on Jul 26, 2016

Joseph: This is a fine collection of Malcolm Gladwell's previous articles which appeared in "New Yorker" magazine. They cover things like:

1. Pitchmen, specifically Ron Popeil and the marriage of the message (Vegematic, Rotisserie) and the medium (TV).

2. Ketchup, why there is essentially only one kind of ketchup (hits 5 fundamental tastes together - salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami, the full bodied taste like in chicken soup) and one brand - Heinz (hits an 'amplitude' like Coke and Pepsi).

3. Nassem Taleb of 'Black Swan' fame. Investors don't behave with statistical orderliness - they change their minds. Random, unexpected events can sweep the markets like the Russian government defaulting on its bonds caused LTCM hedge fund to collapse causing panic to spread. So, his strategy is to ignore minor changes in the market and bet on big changes which will come unexpectantly but where really big profit is.

4. Hair Dye - Shirley Polikoff of Clairol's 'Nice n' Easy' with her 'Does she or doesn't she (translated from Yiddish), only her hairdresser knows for sure' and Ilon Specht of L'Oreal's 'I'm worth it' were the first stirrings of the feminism movement. Led to...

United States on Jan 17, 2010