Thursday, June 14, 2012

"Freakonomics"


In the book “Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner it’s about different scenarios that have happened and give some stats on how it impacts the main problem. The reason why I think the authors wrote this book is because there are a lot of people that worry about different things like crime, cheating, and how parenting works. So the book shows how stuff happens and sometimes it doesn’t make seem as bad as usual. Also there are things that people would not know about unless the book brought it up. Things that left me impressed to me it was the whole book because I like how they bring up certain subjects and make connections on how they relate. The chapter that brought out the most discussion on our book group was the one about the crime rate went lower and how they relate how abortions were related to the crime rate being lower. This book has made me want to read the second book because I was so interested. The only downfall was the big vocabulary in the book I wouldn’t understand some of the words.  The book to me was an enjoyable reading because I was so interested in what the book had to offer.  The language didn’t make me loose interest it made want to find out what the words meant. The terms weren’t explained but by the way they were put at times I got a sense on what the word would mean. The examples that the book put out was really helpful because it would lead to their main point. I would recommend this to someone because it’s a really interesting book and I think other people would enjoy it.     

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