The Tipping Point

Since I started becoming more active on reading, I make an effort to alternate genres. Most notably so I don't mix match scifi characters on my mind (like how I interchanged chRacters from Project Hail Mary and that other John Scalzi book, I had to DNF the latter for a minute).

The Revenge of the Tipping Point is a book I got as a souvenir from our trip in Colorado. I just finished the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy then and found myself on a book hole.

It was hard to be next to the Crazy Rich trilogy because I truly enjoyed those books. So I won't attempt to read another fiction for a while. Let's go to a sort of real life thing, I said.

So my eyes lead me to the Tipping Point because I was a fan of The Revisionist History podcast, that I thought I would enjoy a sort-of book counterpart to it. I knew then that a Malcolm Gladwell book would soon anyway be thrown in the mix, as a social kinda genre.

When I was reading the intro, I was wondering why I don't know anything about what he's talking about. It dawned on me that I didn't actually read the first part, The Tipping Point. I had always thought that it was The Revisionist History.

So there I was, I got the audible and started reading the first book...

All this time, I kept on thinking that these topics could have been summarized into a single paragraph (or in the current generation, a tiktok video). There's too much intros or beating around the bush I guess...

And I was giving it the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was very different then. There were no influencers 25 years ago. So it wasn't worth mentioning.

So I had better hopes for the book 2, maybe it will be tackled there somehow.

But then I finally got into the Revenge and there was no mention of the influencer culture at all (maybeee I missed it??). Anyway, I believed that "Influencing" is the source of tipping points nowadays, it made people millionnaires and it actually is a career now.

So back and forth me keeping an open mind, giving it more chances... maybe it's really just all about social situations of the previous decade/s. There were a few chapters from both the books that I did like - from book 1 - the New York crime rate

And in book 2 - definitely the Will and Grace chapter.

Overall, ok. Not a raving one for me though.