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Title: Too Flat
Review: Thomas Friedman is an astute columnist, and his columns ring true because he knows the issues that he discusses. Unfortunately, this book is about topics that Friedman admittedly discovered too late and he spends page after page convincing us and perhaps more, himself, that he now gets it. Very little here is new to even the casual technophile; what is interesting is that there is a story connecting the technology. However, that story-telling is marred by an obscene number of references to the term "flatten" and its variants. What starts out as a clever book title and metaphor becomes obnoxious after it is pounded to the reader on virtually every page--do a search using one of the new-fangled search devices Freidman has now heard about and you will find thousands of the "flatten" words in this book. A ruthless and human editor would have improved this needlessly lengthy book.
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