What a crap book - The World is Flat!

Because I spent a whopping $20 on the book which seems to have caught everyone in a feverish chase I thought I would do the same as well, only to find that not only were the points blatantly obvious and a repetition of what I have picked up from university classes, the slipshod way he draws sweeping conclusions from biased sources without providing a legitimate counter to what his detractors might say (and I think he should, as an esteemed journalist, be aware of such simple academic writing rigours) really made me fell like I have thrown my good money and time away. I regret spending time dragging my feet through the book, when I could have better spent it on a walk outside sunny Singapore! Grr!

Read me wrong - I do agree with some of the premises he suggests in the book, though the way he writes is while entertaining, highly suspicious of his biased intent.