I've read Malcolm Gladwell's books, Blink and Outliers.

Those books were completely engaging, interesting and compelling to the point that I could not put them down.

Those books are not Grisham yarns or Clancy tales of page-turning fiction, but are books of journalistic exploration, discovery, understanding and what-is-learned-next non-fiction.

I have never read non-fiction books that are as enthralling as Gladwell's work.

Gladwell has mastered his prose style. 
Gladwell has also mastered his storytelling craft.
He is a complete artist in every sense.
He weaves these true life accounts and histories wonderfully and tacitly, moving you through the lives of these people and moving you through these unremarkable now remarkable events.

What The Dog Saw is a collection of Mr. Gladwell's work from his efforts for The New Yorker.
Each chapter is an essay discovered and written for the magazine. This book provides numerous subjects as opposed to one main, overriding subject pursued in his other books.

These essays and articles are written extremely well and are very interesting. As always, the people, places, facts, misconceptions, truths and far-reaching results of all of these ingredients are quite incredible. "Ronco", women's hair coloring and the Pill all provide deep subject matter for Mr. Gladwell to delve into.

But - for me, this book did not keep my interest.

After thinking it over, I think I would enjoy reading Mr. Gladwell researching, discovering and crafting these subjects into one of his full-length works. He is so good at all of the above ingredients, it's a let down to only get small pieces explored and end up with small pieces written. I just wanted Mr. Gladwell to go all out on these subjects - writing for a magazine format does not allow that.

That may be where the rub is for me.

This is not a Malcolm Gladwell book.
This is a great collection of Mr. Gladwell's New Yorker articles.

Malcom Gladwell's homepage.