SuperFreakonomics is as close to a perfect copy of Freakonomics that the authors could come up with. While this isn't bad, Freakonomics was a great book, it isn't very good either. SuperFreakonomics continues disproving common knowledge through statistics and anecdotes and has is decently amusing stylistically. It could have been an amazing book, except for one fact: it is horribly repetitive.
Even though the topics in the chapters seem as different as two topics possibly can be, the process the authors take the readers through is constant throughout the book. This caused me to feel like I was just reading the same section over and over again and made a book with good writing and interesting topics really boring. It seemed like every discussion my BLA group had was the same because every chapter was the same. It was one of very few books that made me think of reading as a chore.
Maybe it would have been more enjoyable if I hadn't just read Freakonomics, so I'll give it a 3 out of 5.
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