Reviews
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods, by Danna Staaf
roguesquid0's review
5.0
1. Don’t buy nautilus shells; none of them survive the shell taking.
2. Vampire squids are actually the size of kittens and are the ancient example of “before octopus and squid split.” Also, they don’t eat animals/fish etc, they are the clean up crew for the 600 - 1200 ft depths. With dark red skin, and piercing blue eyes (you can’t see the pupil), they are tiny (not actual) demons of the dark spooky depths.
3. Read the book.
2. Vampire squids are actually the size of kittens and are the ancient example of “before octopus and squid split.” Also, they don’t eat animals/fish etc, they are the clean up crew for the 600 - 1200 ft depths. With dark red skin, and piercing blue eyes (you can’t see the pupil), they are tiny (not actual) demons of the dark spooky depths.
3. Read the book.
me_haugen's review against another edition
4.0
Read this one while I was waiting for them to start the play I was at. The show was "Pirates of Penzance" and I didn't really want to go cause I'd already seen the show a bunch of times in college cause the main character was born on February 29th and I was thinking I might want to be a leap year scholar after school and try to answer all the big questions about why it was happening and what it meant that only happened every four years but then it was rudely explained to me at a house party that leap year is just something people made up cause they are bad at making calendars and it wasn't a physical phenomenon at all. After that I was much less interested in leap year and especially "Pirates of Penzance" but I won these tickets at a silent auction. I had been meaning to be bidding on a football signed by Harvey Wilson of the Wilson Sporting Equipment dynasty but I guess I wrote my name in the wrong place and they said I had to take the tickets and go to the show or they couldn't take my money and use it to buy Prilosec for the Men in their 30s with Heartburn Foundation -- a cause near and dear to me. Also, this book was good.
ladynigelia's review against another edition
5.0
I fell in love with cuttlefish when I met a flamboyant cuttlefish in Indonesia in 2015. This book was recommended in one of my cephalopod fan groups. I learned SO MUCH about what we know about the history of cephalopods. The audiobook reader does a lovely job with pacing. The author does well with call backs to earlier chapters to remind us how things are connected and where we are in time. And it didn't mind being interrupted by listening to books that needed to be returned first.
ladynigelia's review against another edition
5.0
I fell in love with cuttlefish when I met a flamboyant cuttlefish in Indonesia in 2015. This book was recommended in one of my cephalopod fan groups. I learned SO MUCH about what we know about the history of cephalopods. The audiobook reader does a lovely job with pacing. The author does well with call backs to earlier chapters to remind us how things are connected and where we are in time. And it didn't mind being interrupted by listening to books that needed to be returned first.