Here is the review I wrote about the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Blink

Danny Samuels

Overall I found Blink to be a useless repetitive read. Yes blink did have it's interesting points but overall it seemed the author said the same thing over and over again in different ways. One can get most of the meaning of the book by reading the first two chapters. Chapter six is also moderately important because it talks about the downside of thin slicing, also someone gets shot, which also makes things more interesting. Otherwise though the rest of the chapters have nothing new that one can learn from them. It seems as though, as the book went on, that the author was just trying to flaunt his knowledge and fuel his ego. Although in the first few beginning chapters there were some quite interesting points brought up such as the prospective use and power of thin slicing and snap judgements, which were intellectual weapons I had never heard of or thought about before. But after the first few chapters and examples the reader can definitely grasp that power and the rest of the book is really very useless in my opinion almost acts as overkill. All in all I found this book to be interesting through only about one quarter of the “action” and the rest is pretty needless.