The Tell by Matthew Hertenstein

New thing today, finished The Tell by Matthew Hertenstein. I finished this book pretty quickly. I saw it at the library around a "Mentalist" flyer - a mentalist was coming to the library branch so they had books on predicting lies, reading tells and other such topics. This one looked interesting. Overall it was completely different than I thought it would be but it was still interesting.

I thought it would be about how to read people, but it ended up being a book based on psychology studies and how certain traits about people seem to correlate or be associated with seemingly unrelated things. It's not really a book on being able to "Tell" things about people, but more of our reactions or associations with things, people's looks and other traits.

If you're not interested by chapter 2 or 3, don't go any further. The entire book is very similar in tone. I was interested, even though it was different from what I expected. He's a little wordy, so I skimmed a lot of it, and he talks about some stuff I already knew so it was just sort of an elaboration of some of that stuff as well. 

It also talks about some of our instinctual gut reactions to things, and some of our superficial assumptions about things and people being pretty accurate - a sort of super intuition on people or things.  It also talks about how some of that can be completely wrong or biased. I did learn quite a few new interesting things. :) Lovely how books can do that!

Overall good :)