OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE BOOK?
OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE BOOK? Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a new book out which follows up on his earlier books, FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS and THE BLACK SWAN. Since I have posted on them so often, it’s apparent how much I like them. Taleb’s new book is: ANTIFRAGILE: THINGS THAT GAIN FROM DISORDER. I asked for the new book for Christmas, and Mary Jane gave it to me. Michiko Kakutani has reviewed the book in the New York Times (December 16) and called it “maddening, bold, repetitious, judgmental, intemperate, erudite, reductive, shrewd, self-indulgent, self-congratulatory, provocative, pompous, penetrating, perspicacious and pretentious.” I can see how Kakutani arrived at her list of epithets because I could see a basis for applying each of them to the first two books. Of course, I found those two books delightful to read and am looking forward to the new one.