Dark Tide vs the other books

Being in both AP History as well as AP English, I was forced to read all three books: Dark Tide, Freakonomics, and Outliers. As well written as Freakonomics and Outliers were, I would have to say I thoroughly appreciated the set up of Dark Tide the most. Dark Tide made it seem as though I was reading a story. Freakonomics and Outliers, to me, simply had too many random facts being thrown around and connected to other random facts and studies. When reading, I don't like to be told facts, I like to explore them. It took me a long time to read Freakonomics and Outliers because they seemed too confusing and they skipped around too much for my liking. I also tended to mix up the facts in the two books while writing in both AP blogs and I had to constantly look back between the two books which took a lot of time. By the time I reached Dark Tide, I was so done with school work, I was ready to quit school before it even started. Once I started reading Dark Tide, I couldn't stop. The first day of reading I suddenly found myself on page 70 (which for me is a personal accomplishment since I am the slowest reader ever). Everything in the book seemed to flow together quite nicely and orderly. The prologue caught my attention as I realized that the book wasn't just a bunch of facts being thrown at me. It was a story of different people; different experiences. Reading it reminded me of watching the movie "Vantage Point" because it gave different points of view and different daily lives which all connected eventually.