Freakonomics (Book Review)

Lot's of hype about this one. The premise seemed interesting so I bought it.

I'm starting to learn a lesson the older I get. DON'T READ THE FOREWORD! or the Introduction. Jeez! I get set up for failure on so many occasions it's just probably better to start at Chapter 1 and move on. Foreword and Intro after the book is complete. At least that way I can see how well I perceive biases or slant. But I'm off topic here.

As above, great topic. This book is a turd. An utter turd. Fawning praise of the co-author? Yep. Endlessly. Sociology posing as hard economics? Yep.

From the intro we learn that this book was an expansion of a NYT Sunday Magazine story. Book is coauthored by said reporter. And guess what? That's what this book is. An extremely padded large font 'we need 180 pages 'cus the publisher said so' book. And it is really, really too bad. There should be a hell of a lot of material here but any semblance of a proper book is wasted in this vacuous cesspool of a joke.

And given the massive number of blank pages with simple one line sentences fawning over the author, I read this book in about an hour. That's not a book.

Writing a good general reader hard science book is hard. These guys didnt even try.

Don't waste your time.