funny, informative, interesting, addictive!!

A very light read.

It was good, and I enjoyed everything, but it lost a star because just about everything in there has been covered by the podcast. If you're a regular listener to the podcast, it might be worth it to check out from the library once, but I wouldn't spend the money to purchase it.

If you're a regular fan of their podcast there's not much new content, but it's still a good read.

The third book in this series with a heavy focus on the process of thinking more productively, creatively and rationally. With questions such as the upside of quiting, who believes 9/11 was an inside job, why suicide rises with quality of life and why did the young doctor swallow a batch of dangerous bacteria. This book provides a fantastic way into breaking down the questions we all have into bite size chunks and thinking about the answers in new ways, and still containing the page-turning furious pace of the previous two books.

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A much better podcast than a book.

If you enjoyed Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics, you'll enjoy this book. Levitt and Dubner are again using interesting vignettes to teach us how approaching problem solving in less-than-obvious ways can pay off with better results. If you already enjoy their Freakonomics Podcast (http://freakonomics.com/archive/) then you've likely heard these specific examples before. But their advice is still solid, especially when they discuss using storytelling in making a persuasive argument. It's short, interesting and worth the read. - Joyce A.

Excellent content, but 80% overlap with the podcast. I get that it would be hard to come up with two separate sets of compelling stories, but still a bit of a bummer.

A very entertaining book by two of my favourite thinkers in the area of economics. It gathers many of the concepts from the podcast. I felt I was familiarised with many of the topics of the book, so not too surprising, but that's because I've been following these guys since I read their first joint book 'Freakonomics' and that was 2005!