I call this a review-let because it will be very, very short and full of sweeping generalizations. I’m still leaning on my 8-day-old daughter as an excuse.
I read all 260 pages of The Tipping Point in a day and a half (before my daughter was born), which will seem spectacular only if you know that in the last 6 months, I’ve only read about 250 pages of anything in total.
The book was written right in the middle of the dot-com era and it was interesting to see how either it was heavily effected by the buzz then, or it is what created the buzz then. Either way, now 5 years down the line we can see some of its ideas played out in various guerrilla marketing tactics like spray painting the IBM-ified Linux penguin on side walks, or super-targeted mailings and promotional campaigns, or political campaigns like Howard Dean’s.
Anyhow, I obviously found the book interesting enough to read it in one day, so I recommend it.