So I just finished the Tipping Point. It was actually pretty interesting, and I gleaned some good knowledge out of the book, but I so dislike the voice he writes in, and the fact that he's essentially producing bubblegum pop science for masses to consume and pretend like they can have intellectual conversations on how to make teens quit smoking, using terminology stolen from a Malcolm Gladwell book they 'just read and omg you have to read it!' There are principles he talks about that seem to crystalize certain floaty ideas that i'd had, but never really connected before, and there are applications of some other principles that will affect me beneficially on a wholly personal level, so for that i'm interested.

Now, to devour Shogun