I've just started listening to
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcom Gladwell. It is told in a unique format like a podcast. In other words, quotes from legal trials and news stories are narrated by the actual media sources or a re-enactment. I'm ambivalent about it so far. Don't love it but don't hate it.
From Goodreads:
Quote:
How do we make sense of the unfamiliar? Why are we so bad at judging someone, reading a face, or detecting a lie? Why do we so often fail to 'get' other people?
Through a series of puzzles, encounters and misunderstandings, from little-known stories to infamous legal cases, Gladwell takes us on a journey through the unexpected. You will read about the spy who spent years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the man who saw through the fraudster Bernie Madoff, the suicide of the poet Sylvia Plath and the false conviction of Amanda Knox. You will discover that strangers are never simple.
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