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Mediocre

Revisado: 11-25-24

It’s hard to like a book when you don’t like the characters. Her other books are infinitely better.

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Dated. But still one of the best.

Revisado: 11-17-24

I read this as a kid about 35 years ago. It was fun to listen to and experience again. Maybe it isn’t as scary to me now but it’s a great vampire story.

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Not for me

Revisado: 09-07-24

It was an amazingly boring book. I wish I understood why it was listed as #1 this century.

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Eye opening, sad, scary, and uplifting

Revisado: 03-28-24

What a powerful telling of the history of how people treat and perceive one another.

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Glad to have checked it off the list

Revisado: 11-18-23

Really good book. Great performance. Loved the beginning and end especially. Highly recommend reading again if you were forced to read this in high school!

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Perfect from beginning to end

Revisado: 10-27-23

Rarely has such a short read shared so much. Fun, smart, insightful and a great performance with nuance.

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Excellent performance. Gripping story.

Revisado: 07-20-23

A for sure read. The whole book is hard to stop listening to. Highly recommend for fans of the genre and the author.

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Dated story feels trapped in that time

Revisado: 08-20-12

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Nothing. The story was the culprit. The reader was fine, just guilty by association.

What do you think your next listen will be?

I already started listening to Michael Connelly's The Poet.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Let's just say I'm glad he didn't try to imitate Humphrey Bogart.

What character would you cut from The Maltese Falcon?

The weaselly little guy who sounded like the bad guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Any additional comments?

I'm glad I crossed this one off my list of books I always felt I should have read but didn't. Having said that, maybe there's a reason I was able to keep it on that list for so long - it's better on a list than in your ear.

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I used to think; now I just read Gladwell instead

Revisado: 02-13-12

What did you love best about Blink?

Gladwell has a way of looking at a story that others might not think too interesting and telling it in such a way that it is nothing short of compelling.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Blink?

I knew Warren Harding was a President to be forgotten. Gladwell's anecdote about why people at the time - voters - couldn't forget such a horrible candidate was mesmerizing.

What does Malcolm Gladwell bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

When someone reads their own work there is no guessing at the meanings, the inflection, the important points of emphasis. He read like a great professor would explain to his class a point that has taken him a lifetime to understand.

What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?

Try not to judge everything at face value. If you do, prepare to adjust your opinion if you keep an open mind.

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I wished for more

Revisado: 05-20-11

I worry that Mr. Larson peaked Devil in the White City. That had tension, intrigue, wonder and the struggle between good and evil. This book had none of that. It was not an enjoyable story. You knew the outcome from the first page. What you didn't know was that the protagonists would turn out to be unlikable and the reader would be a bore. In my mind, it boils down to this: Dodd was a coward in over his head in Berlin and was more in love with his farm back in Illinois and the book he couldn't finish than with his job that could have helped to extinguish Hitler before his march into history. Dodd's daughter, Martha, was more intent on sleeping her way through the third reich than on doing something meaningful with her life, especially with the unique position she was in. I won't ruin the book for others but to me, these aren't heroes. Hitler was the worst. But these weren't his foils. And for a book with such a sinister theme, perhaps the producers would have been better served selecting a reader less in love with proper German pronunciation than with the emotion behind the events to which he was paid to read.

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