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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
6 reviews
zozibelle's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death
apersonfromflorida's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death and Death
Minor: Cancer
keegan_leech's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A damn good book! Shelldrake immediately joins the ranks of the very best science writers.
Fungi are fascinating, but the primary draw of this book isn't the incredible science. It's the writing, which seems to drive always towards changing a reader's perspective. You'll almost certainly look at the world differently and be sharing facts about fungi with the people around you until they're sick of hearing it.
Shelldrake also avoids the trap of anthropomorphising his subject. He's constantly reminding us not to use human metaphors for the ways that fungi behave, but to imagine a way of being that's radically different from any human behaviours or ways of thinking
Fungi are fascinating, but the primary draw of this book isn't the incredible science. It's the writing, which seems to drive always towards changing a reader's perspective. You'll almost certainly look at the world differently and be sharing facts about fungi with the people around you until they're sick of hearing it.
Shelldrake also avoids the trap of anthropomorphising his subject. He's constantly reminding us not to use human metaphors for the ways that fungi behave, but to imagine a way of being that's radically different from any human behaviours or ways of thinking
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death and Drug use
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death and Medical content
Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, and Racism
talonsontypewriters's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Medical content, and Alcohol
sarah984's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This is sort of a combination memoir/scientific review about fungi and the ways they relate to other organisms. I found it really interesting but it does ramble in places and a few of the people quoted are kind of questionable to me. Overall recommend it if you're interested in pop-science books though.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug use, and Alcohol
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