In my head

Sometimes when some new thing comes about, be it a movie, band, tv show, or in this case a book, and everyone is talking about how great it is supposed to be I tend to ignore it. I can't really explain why, and it isn't with everything; I haven't pinpointed the filter in my brain quite yet, but it needs to stop.

I'm currently reading a book I should have read when it first came out, Freakonomics. If you ever wonder why I'm not as talkative as everyone else you know, this is the answer. Questions like the ones presented in this book are going through my head constantly; this is how I think, I just don't have the hard data that they did to come to a definitive answer.

I think a major problem people who want to read non-fiction books face when they actually set out to do it is that while the facts may be interesting, the author(s) doesn't present them in an interesting way. Freakonomics does not have that problem, it is the epitome of interestingness. For example, "Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?" this is a question everyone thinks about and the authors of Freakonomics step up to answer it. If you haven't read this book yet you're missing out.