Outliers

This week I read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. This was a non-fiction book that examines outliers throughout history, including geniuses, professional athletes, and successful people like Bill Gates or Robert Oppenheimer. First of all, I do not enjoy non-fiction books AT ALL. Second, this book was awesome. It was really interesting to see the authors view on things in culture. I learned why January is the best birthday for hockey players, to why plane crashes are more likely to happen in Korea or Columbia then the USA. This was really interesting and really entertaining to read. My one piece of criticism for the book is sometimes it seemed a little bit over-analytical, it completely ruled out the factors of luck, talent, and hard work and replaced them with different factor around the people, which was kind of sad and pessimistic. So yeah, overall I would totally recommend this book to anybody, even if you don't especially enjoy non-fiction; I never do, and this books was great, and really interesting.