Outliers is a book about success and the factors behind being successful. Overall, the author says that success is the result of luck. Yes, success does take hard work and some natural talent, but if those they are not supported by the right circumstances, then success will not occur. A lot of success depends on when you were born, where you were raised, and the culture that you were born into. According to Malcolm Gladwell, circumstances are much more important than hard work and talent.
The book was very easy to read. It is directed to a very wide audience, so it is written so that anybody can understand it. He uses mostly anecdotes to prove his points, and compared to "Freakonomics" he doesn't use very many statistics or studies. The idea behind the book is very interesting, but halfway through, it becomes very repetitive. It is a good coffee table book to skim through and read one chapter if you are bored, but to read straight through is hard to do.
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