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Title: This Book is Flat
Review: If you've heard Mr. Friedman interviewed on NPR or CNN, skimmed an article in Newsweek or surfed the net on his subject, you've pretty much read the book. Friedman pads a heck of a lot of fluff between the first chapter and the last, saying the same thing over and over. It's as if his publisher demanded a large word count and then sent him out on the interview circuit to promote what easily could have been said in a concisely written essay. It's too bad that we see so much of this today; a huge marketing campaign goes into propping up a book that wastes too much of the reader's time. The concepts and insights are enlightening if you've not been paying attention in the digital age, but for a message about global economy, it's ironic that the medium used is redundant, padded, and required the use of so much paper.
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