What Every BODY is Saying (An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed Reading People). As opposed to everybody that is.
I was struggling with a series of essays in collected form for alternate military histories this week, and did not think that I would finish it before Monday came, but was persevering. Then at midday-ish today this book arrived in the post from Book Depository in the UK (ordered a week ago, free worldwide delivery - a reader's best friend) and I glanced through it quickly to see what I thought of it. I had been attracted by the cover initially when I was browsing books on Neuroscience and came across this by accident.
Then by 9 pm the same night I had finished the whole thing.
Not because it's short at 234 pages it's a decent length, and not because it's simple or filled with illustrations. It was just that interesting.
I had read books on behaviours before, and on body language, Allan Pease was the go to back in the 80's and 90's - now it seems to be this guy. And I can understand why. Full of real life examples (though that may simply be confirmation bias, it's still got the ring of actual truth, not like religious testimony or Fox News outrage) and good metaphors, it's easy to understand and well written.
It also does not overreach, it's realistic in it's intention to teach good observation, not black and white lie detection. It also refers to plenty of other sources and experts, not it's own self-inflated body of proprietary evidence. One often quoted is Paul Ekman - he whom "Lie to Me" is vaguely based on.
Excellent read, back to military essays or perhaps a new Book Depository deposit will itervene this week.
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