Well, OK, Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan has covered a lot of this territory, but if, like me, you happen to believe that--especially in technologically confident America--we vastly overestimate our control of our own lives and underestimate the role of luck and randomness, you cannot get enough of this subject. Mlodinow's examples of the role that chance plays in our lives are funny and trenchant. They help to instill the kind of stoicism we need to deal with random setbacks--and triumphs. (Everyone knows that lottery winners sometimes go on to have miserable lives.) Mlodinow's ideas, like Taleb's, should change the way you look at not only life but your own life.