Outliers: The Story of Success (The Matthew Effect)

The next book I am going to review, and the second I have read by this author, is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. This book is completely fascinating and I would recommend it to anyone.

This work delves into the factors of success and basically breaks it down into two parts: opportunity and legacy. Your background and development makes you a perfect and sometimes only fit for opportunities that arise in the world. But what are the things that create those opportunities? You would be surprised at how random some of them are.

The Catcher in the Rye (2014, #1)

My initial impressions of this book is that it is pure crap. And that is also my last impression of it too. I'm glad I was never forced to read this in school.

My main issue with this book is that it is so negative. The main character Holden Caulfield hates everything. Even the things he likes, he will tell you over and over again 100 different things he hates about it. It never ends. This book only spans about two days of his life (no really) from when he gets kicked out of a prep school to when he hides out in a crappy hotel over the weekend, biding his time until he figures his parents have received the letter of his dismissal.