{"id":3337,"date":"2019-10-30T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2019-10-16T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:01:26","slug":"book-review-talking-to-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/book-review-talking-to-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review : Talking to Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3339\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3339\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/book-review-talking-to-strangers\/talking-to-stranger\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/talking-to-stranger.jpg?fit=250%2C372\" data-orig-size=\"250,372\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"talking to stranger\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/talking-to-stranger.jpg?fit=250%2C372\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3339\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/talking-to-stranger.jpg?resize=202%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/talking-to-stranger.jpg?resize=202%2C300 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/talking-to-stranger.jpg?w=250 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2nT65V2\">Talking to Strangers<\/a> by Malcolm Gladwell is certainly a provocative book, enough so that despite my anger and frustration I finished reading it in the hope it would conclude with a complex and thoughtful analysis of why our differences and history result in so much misunderstanding when strangers interact with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly my expectations were not realized. The real-life examples that he used were not truly examined in-depth and the lack of complexity often left me frustrated. I may just be unable to feel any sympathy for a convicted sex offender like Brock Turner, even if he drank too much, I just don&#8217;t see that as an excuse for his behavior. But that was the basis I got from that example, they were both drunk and so there was a misunderstanding when I was waiting for rape culture to be brought up and added into the mix. Maybe the author doesn&#8217;t see rape culture as a problem or a factor in this case.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure there are people that will benefit from reading this book, it certainly isn&#8217;t bad. If you want to read it <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2nT65V2\">click here to get your copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell is certainly a provocative book, enough so that despite my anger and frustration I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-RP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2208,"url":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/moon-reader-innovative-book-reader-with-powerful-controls-full-functions\/","url_meta":{"origin":3337,"position":0},"title":"Moon+ Reader Innovative book reader with powerful controls &#038; full functions","author":"saifuddin","date":"July 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Moon+ Reader is an android app for reading any documents \/ books. 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