Major Reviews

The New York Times: “If you want to trust my snap judgment, buy this book: you'll be delighted. If you want to trust my more reflective second judgment, buy it: you'll be delighted but frustrated, troubled and left wanting more.”

Read more here: www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/books/review/16COVERBR.html

USA Today: “Gladwell loves analogies. Here's one for his book: If Blink were a college course, it wouldn't be a graduate seminar on the cutting edge. It would be a popular introductory survey course, and for most readers, that's good enough to start us thinking in new ways about how we think.”

Read more here: www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2005-01-10-blink_x.htm

The Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Gladwell is a gifted storyteller, able to find memorable characters and delightful anecdotes wherever he goes. But for much of the book, he struggles to figure out what he really wants to say.”

Read more here: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110539846693722072,00.html

The Washington Post: “Though perhaps less immediately seductive than the title and theme of The Tipping Point, Blink satisfies and gratifies.”

Read more here: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8040-2005Jan13.html

SFGate: “Alas, after chasing Gladwell's elfin mind down such rabbit holes as marriage compatibility, athletic reflexes, presidential handicapping, military strategy, pop music marketing and the shooting of an unarmed Haitian immigrant by New York police officers, the first word that pops into my head is ‘glib.’”

Read more here: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/11/DDGE5AN3FB1.DTL&type=books