Redundant.

Outliers could be summed up in the first chapter. After that his points become redundant and stupid. He eventually begins to contradict himself after claiming that success is born out of opportunities presented to the individual. He then goes on to claim that it is a story of hard work and that everyone can achieve success. I thought that this contradiction inherently negated his points and rendered the whole book a redundancy.  Gladwell's use of examples was effective, as the examples were diverse and powerful. They were however, strictly anecdotal so when dives deeper than the surface they are faced with questions of both the validity and problems with what they originally accepted as fact.
This book deserves a 3 out of 5 stars as when compared with his peer's writing specifically, Freakonomics, it ranks below it because of the lack of statistical evidence.