The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

"The book is really about what causes some ideas to catch on and others not to catch on; and at what point does an idea sort of tip over and become popularized. If you're interested in becoming -- investing in the stock market, you're trying to figure out what's gonna catch on, what won't, and when. So this book sort of helps you think about what are some of the factors that go into that.

At times I wondered if the book was a little bit too simplistic. Like, he was talking about in New York, I think, Giuliani cleaned up the graffiti; and so in The Tipping Point, the book makes an argument that that had something to do with the drop in crime.

I remember reading somewhere that when Roe versus Wade -- in 1973 when a lot of the kids that would have been born -- and I'm pro-choice and everything like that -- would have come of age, that may have been responsible for the drop in crime.

I think, though, in general, the book made me think about things. So, although, he may be sort of making a few over generalizations, I thought for the most part it was a well-reasoned book.

I would give The Tipping Point four and a half stars out of five, because I thought it really caused me to think about the world in a different way; particularly, how we interact with each other"

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