Malcolm Gladwell’s new book has hit the stands. I watched the trailer—yes, if you are Gladwell your books have trailers—and gleefully picked up a copy before Thanksgiving. I was trying to remember the last time I felt this excited about a new book coming out until it hit me that it was Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. I finished the book in a night and it led me to a startling comparison:

1) The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers examine trends, instincts, and success but mostly focus on how Magic is produced.

2) Where does this passage come from, Outliers or Goblet of Fire?

Giant tulip poplars grew in the coves and at the foot of the hills, some with trunks as wide as seven or eight feet in diameter. On the ground were bears and mountain lions and rattlesnakes; in the treetops, an astonishing array of squirrels; and beneath the soil, on thick seam after another of coal.

3) A few pages in, I stopped caring whether or not his ideas hold any statistical weight because I started living vicariously through the characters. In the same way I ask myself whether I would be a Gryffindor or a Slytherin I asked whether I would be a ‘Connector’ or a ‘Maven.’

4) Whether or not he will admit it, the books are in a series. They are only getting darker and darker, he will continue to de(then-re)mystify every aspect of my life. I’m pretty sure Warner Brothers and Universal are in a bidding war.

5) When your friends haven’t read the books you sound like a lunatic when you bring up Hogsmeade and Luna Lovegood, as I found out today in Critical Theory, the same is true when you enthusiastically bring up the difference between corn and rice cultivation.

6) Aside from The Order of the Phoenix, The Tipping Point is the only book I have read while peeing.

This post originally appeared on Cody’s Blog.