The uniqueness of the book is, the complex ideas described in the form of story, Which enables easy to understad. The book is about, How world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable situations.
Author Nassim Taleb is indeed intelligent and celebrated author amongst the wise peoples community. He is Dean's professor at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
To read this book you need be very focused and dedicated.
The best part of book is he describes every point using a story. So that the metaphor and contradictions he uses could be described and understood easily to unknown.
I would recommend this book if you want to know how you can save yourself in future from uncertain and rare event which could have extreme effect on your life.
The book is so descriptive, that below most of the chapter he uses notes to elaborate complex ideas, or to defend his logic and argument on why he used particular one.
I bought this book at rs. 395.