Monday, January 13, 2014

A Quiet review

Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking is an accessible great book. It thoroughly informs those who read it about introverts and introversion. It balances the clinical and the anecdotal, a rare feat. Such balance can't be found throughout, however.


Cain's engagement with ideas unfortunately doesn't extend as far into criticism of them as it does into exploration of them. Nonetheless, in spite of its sometimes slightly one-sided presentation of ideas, Cain's book delivers on its title. Now we've just to see what comes of that quiet revolution mentioned on the book's back. 

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