Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner main focuses is a number of questions and various facts to support each theme of the chapter. Freakonomics uses blunt analysis to turn conventional wisdom on its head. I believe the author wrote this book to express his mind through facts and statistics to support his ideas for the negative point of views. The message he was trying to convey was how through his eyes how many negative situations are occurring that no one’s pays much attention to. Yes the passage that left a bad impression on me chapter 3 “Why do drug dealers still live with their mom” in this chapter they basically talked about African-Americans with straight forward facts and opinions in one of the pages they even state the word Nigger and I just didn’t understand what that had to do with the chapter. I can tell some situations were fabricated in the story because African American males calls each other Nigga not Nigger that name was given to use by slaves and it just rubbed me the wrong way it just showed ignorance to me on the authors behalf. The parenting chapter had the richest discussion within our book group we talked about how having a good, bad, or overprotecting parent could affect your life and self-esteem and just a child’s outlook upon life. After reading this book I lost interest in both of the authors and I would never buy and of their books. The way a nonfiction book is written can impact a reader's enjoyment and understanding of it. This book vocabulary really made me gain a lot of knowledge upon new words it surely enhanced my reading, but then again it was so many words I didn’t know so it caused me stop reading then look up the book so I completely started losing interesting for the book. No, I wouldn’t recommend this book because I feel its very one sided and only focuses on the negative outlook upon life within each chapter.
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