If Books Could Kill
4.7/5
Critic Rating
The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Jun 6, 2023
"...crept into more contemporary concerns...horoughly modern expression of intellectual history and criticism, made ever more accessible by its form and format."
Score: 5
Henrietta McKervey • Independent.ie • Dec 21, 2022
"With a gleeful fondness for pseudoscience, their wryly hilarious take-downs include Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, and multi-million seller The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss. The hosts’ rapport made this smart-talking, wise-cracking show a hit straight out of the traps."
Score: 4
James Marriot • The Times UK • Nov 18, 2022
"This is a fun idea. And so Hobbes and Shamshiri go to town...Their vicious unwinding of Gladwell’s logic is satisfying. If there’s a problem with the show it’s that after more than half an hour the hosts’ tone gets a bit smug. For all Gladwell’s faults (and I’m very familiar with them now) I remain a fan. …"
