Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

· Penguin UK
4.6
55 reviews
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?

Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.

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4.6
55 reviews
Nilo Lima
May 2, 2020
This is definitely a great book. I was dazzled while reading this one, as it taught me a lot about some critical facts that have happened throughout these last few decades and I did not have the chance of learning about them, not even as news highlights. By the perspective shared by author, Malcolm Gladwell, I did not read or listen to a book full of criticism and biases, in fact, he was able to take very serious situations of our past, and analise in such way, that we can learn a lot about our way of communicating towards strangers as well as about our truth defaults. He is an amazing writer, and if you don't like reading, you should try his audiobook for the same book, in which he not only reads for the listeners as well as bring real interviews and voice recordings of some the people he writes about in his book, turning it into a very entertaining audiobook.
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Adarsh Koppula
September 15, 2020
Deals with a daily occurrence with all of us when we come across strangers. There is now understanding but little by way of solutions that can be generalized
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Artūras Bieliauskas
September 29, 2019
I know no other author who is able to be so passionate and impartial at the same time. A very important book beautifully written and out at the right time.
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About the author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

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