David and Goliath- Completed Reading

It hurts me to say this, because I am a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell and have read all of his books but I did not enjoy David and Goliath. Normally, Gladwell presents these amazing ideas and that is what makes his books so enjoyable. In David and Goliath, he was lacking this "touch". In the beginning the book was great when he was talking about the story of David and Goliath and in this part it seemed like another one of his great ideas. After this he talked about a youth girl’s basketball team that were big underdogs and ended up going to the State Championships, this was also very interesting. From this point on, the book was not very interesting but I kept reading because I hoped that it would get better. At some points the book did get better but shortly after it became boring again. The points that he was making also did not seem to relate to his overall thesis, that underdogs are not always the underdog, it is just the way that society views them. For a good portion of the book, I was confused trying to figure out how what he was saying related to this point. Normally when he is writing, he makes a wide variety of events and ideas come together and relate to his thesis but in this book it was not there. The topic of underdogs seemed so interesting but the end result was a disappointment.