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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
49 reviews
arunphilip's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.75
It gave me a completely new perspective! What a frankly unlikely source of inspiration and hope.
Content Warnings
Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, and Alcohol
flyingryndeer's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Drug use
star_charter152's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use
bronzeageholly's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
3.75
Always love a mushroom!
My knowledge begins and ends with the ones that go in a risotto so I was really intrigued to hear more, and it’s instantly clear that Sheldrake lives and breathes fungi - “I never act more like a fungus than when I’m investigating them”
My knowledge begins and ends with the ones that go in a risotto so I was really intrigued to hear more, and it’s instantly clear that Sheldrake lives and breathes fungi - “I never act more like a fungus than when I’m investigating them”
This is quite an intense, sometimes feverish, book. It sways here and there across ideas and covers a lot of topics within each chapter. There are moments of stunning poetry, memoir, intriguing experiments, and very technical detail. At points, this change and fluidity between genres helped me remain engaged but at other times it felt confusing.
I particularly loved the section on queer theory for lichens: “the human binary view has made it difficult to ask questions that aren’t binary”
If you want a love letter to the fungus, this will be your jam (can you make jam from mushrooms?).
Content Warnings
Minor: Drug use
dexkit10's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use
Minor: Animal cruelty
sourcerunner's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use
beccaand's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Cancer
biobeetle's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Drug use
grizzlysnack's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This is one of the few narrative nonfiction novels l’ve read that has a refreshing diction! I would recommend it if you’re wanting to learn more about how fungi are their own unique thing, incapable of being labeled and put into a box.
It’s changed the way I view the world and how fungi make my everyday life possible.
It’s changed the way I view the world and how fungi make my everyday life possible.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use
wishbea's review
I really wanted to enjoy this. I have an academic interest in ecology and was hoping to learn new things about fungus from this book, there are a couple interesting facts I wasn't aware of but when I saw that the next chapter was once again about taking LSD I decided I was done.
Extremely difficult to read, the author kept reiterating the same points and it is oddly shallow in its exploration of the subject matter. It mostly focuses on what we don't know instead of what we actually do know.
I prefer reading science books that aren't circular speculation and focus on the facts before introducing other ideas.
Extremely difficult to read, the author kept reiterating the same points and it is oddly shallow in its exploration of the subject matter. It mostly focuses on what we don't know instead of what we actually do know.
I prefer reading science books that aren't circular speculation and focus on the facts before introducing other ideas.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use