Looking Back on the Reading

“Freakonomics,” is a non-fiction book that makes people second think about certain situations. It talks about situations that occur in people’s daily lives and the authors express their opinions and point of views. This book was very one-sided to me, so I think the authors wrote this book to try and change people’s views to what they believe or how they see things. I think the message that was trying to be conveyed was for people to look at things from every aspect. For example, they talked about the difference between a swimming pool and a gun and which one was more dangerous. Although people might think that a gun is more dangerous, in reality, they show how a swimming pool is more dangerous.

The chapter that inspired the richest group discussion was probably Chapter 5, What Makes a Good Parent. We discussed different parenting skills and how what works for some parents, don’t work for all. Personally, I don’t think the book was written in a way that was easily readable because there were a lot of words that many people did not know. That made it hard to understand what I was reading the first time. After finding the definition for those words, I was upset because it was the simplest meaning used in a big term.

After reading this book, I would recommend this book to somebody who has a really open mind and is an active reader. I definitely would not recommend this book to anybody who doesn’t read much and who isn’t interested in other people’s opinions or point of views.