It IS as good as you have heard, and it IS worth your time. If there is anything in your life that prevents you from reading this book, you should excise that thing in favor of reading this book

A document of the times described.

Theodore Dreiser makes it easy to forget what you are doing. It is hard to review his books because you don't remember any but the joy in reading them

A very typical erudite Malcolm Gladwell book, and in self same typicality Malcolm drags me through his points, agreeing along the way until he finally reaches some rhetorical impasse' wherein I am forced to wonder if he is just guessing.

I don't know how I am able to agree invariably until it is time to wrap up and I am unable to follow through the last door.

Still and all, he will make you think and draw your own conclusions

This is a wonderful story that I have every intention of reading with my daughter, to make our own family tradition

Just started reading this book and I am thrilled by the language and description much more than the subject matter so far