Customer Reviews:
 The Tipping Point May 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
'The Tipping Point' is another entertaining, yet laboured book from Malcolm Gladwell. Like 'Blink' you get an interesting premise, explained very well at the beginning of the book, followed by 150 pages going over the same ground in greater depth. Once you've grasped the initial concept and had it proven with a few examples, you don't really need to go over it much more. Saying that, this book is an entertaining read and has some wonderful examples to illustrate the various points. I particularly enjoyed the chapter exploring the benefits, and tipping point of, sesame street and blues clues. Other chapters though, like the one on suicide and smoking, are pretty aimless and take a long time to make a very minor, insignificant point. This book is worth a read if you liked 'Blink' and it has some interesting ideas explored in it. If you like this I'd recommend 'Predictably irrational' which has similar experiments and is more coherent and focused. In fact, I'd probably recommend that book before this one. This is a good read, but not a great read.
 Brilliant April 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was immediately sucked in with the hypothetical and brilliant example of the outbreak of flu. Thought provoking, facsinating read and left me wanting more.
 Wow March 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book. I really like Gladwell as an author as he really makes you think. Would recommend this
Interesting read, but be wary of the evidence February 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the most part a great read. However, Mr Gladwell's use of evidence is very selective and the ambiguity of some of the conclusions from some of the studies is just ignored to fit Gladwell's argument. The studies used have been talked about in other books such as Freakanomics, and the way that they are used here to try and prove the concept of the book should be viewed with caution. The central idea of the book is very simple and reasonably logical, so the poor use of evidence does not distract too much.
Ultimately an interesting, enjoyable read, just a shame that it wasn't better researched.
I Just Tipped! January 17, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
When I published my own book a while back, my daughter gave me The Tipping Point to read. Even though I am a spiritual author, and generally only read books by other spiritual authors, I found this "secular" book to be very inspiring. In my work, I teach that there is a next right step that you are always being "divinely guided" to take -- a step that will help you fulfill your heart's desires in an effortless manner. That step is invariably a small step -- a tiny step, even. But those tiny steps, when taken one after another, prove to be miraculously effective. The Tipping Point contains story after story that verify that fact. I recommend it to you because it will bolster your confidence to keep on doing all those little things that may one day lead to your own tipping point . . . to that point where things just seem to take off on their own. It happened to me. Last fall my book suddenly, and unexpectedly, rose to the top 1% of all books sold on Amazon.com in the U.S.
Steven Lane Taylor, author of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow"
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