Both of my parents have read Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, the New York Times bestseller by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and loved it! So I thought I should give it a try. This book is a nonfiction book. So, it does get a little slow at times but overall it is great! The title of each chapter is a question and the authors answer the question by using outside topics. Some chapters are~
What do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
Where Have all the Criminals Gone?
What makes a Perfect Parent?
And many more. I like this book because it challenges you to think differently. For example~ Instead of asking why are there so many criminals ask where have all the criminals gone? I also like it because if you aren’t overly interested in a certain topic the chapter is about you don’t have to go in order at all!
I give this book a 4 out of 5 star rating. It gets stars for: the way it was wonderfully worded (if the author of Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket wrote a nonfiction book it would be similar to this), the interesting studies, how it is on a wide variety of topics and being one of the few non-fiction books I have read before the other, fiction books on my night stand. But it does loss a star for getting slow at times. There will be a sequel to this book called Super Freakonomics

There are so many quotable quotes in this book but this one I think sums everything up nicely.
Here is an Excerpt~

“And now, with all these pages behind us, an early promise has been confirmed: this book indeed has no “unifying theme.”
But if there is no unifying theme to Freakonomics, there is at least a common thread running through the everyday application of Freakonomics. It as to do with thinking sensibly about how people behave in the real world.”

Page 205, Epilogue: Two Paths to Harvard