Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Write-up by: Kelly E. Lee

This is a non-fiction book. When I first picked the book up I thought it was one of those 'guide to success' books, but I soon discovered that it is so much more than that. Gladwell takes a specific look at successful people and goes back and looks at their lives before they became successful. He has his own interesting theories on why certain people are successful and why others aren't so lucky.

Some of the successful people that he discusses include: Bill Gates, Robert Oppenheimer, the Beatles, and a few notable lawyers.

This is a quote from Time Magazine Online, "Gladwell's goal is to adjust our understanding of how people like that get to where they are. Instead of the Horatio Alger story of success — a gifted child who through heroic striving within a meritocratic system becomes a successful (rich, famous, fill in your life goal here) adult — Outliers tells a story about the context in which success takes place: family, culture, friendship, childhood, accidents of birth and history and geography."

For the complete article, go to this link -----http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858880,00.html

In a nutshell, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it.