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A review by keegan_leech
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
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