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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
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Brilliant, and easy to read, biological history of the Earth - ending with an excellent analysis of what the future looks like given climate change and what we know from the past.
Describes the past not as a still picture, but as a live scene, bringing creatures of the past back to life in your imagination.
One to re-read to truly absorb all the learnings within.
Describes the past not as a still picture, but as a live scene, bringing creatures of the past back to life in your imagination.
One to re-read to truly absorb all the learnings within.
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inspiring
reflective
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Descriptive journey back in time to the origins of life on earth. Good mix of creative writing and scientific explanation. I found some chapters denser and a bit harder to digest but I think that's just down to taxa and species names. I think this is a book that's important especially right now with human-driven climate change. It's sort of reasurring that even if we go extinct, nature 100% will prevail as it has done through cataclismic mass extinctions in the past, it's just up to us whether we come out the other end of it.
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This was a really good one, so much so that I listened to most of the audiobook when it popped into my inbox after I had already read the eBook. My only gripe is that in presenting in reverse chronological order one is kind of seeing a Memento-like approach to Earth history and one might benefit by taking in the chapters in reverse order. In spite of that it’s still such an engrossing and surprisingly intimate history of earth that covers so much ground but doesn't feel like it's necessarily skipping anything. And not solely homo sapien focused, which is a nice change.
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I’m thinking maybe audiobook was not the best format to consume this book in as it was very easy to zone out of and cloud over. And I think I would have benefited from some pictures to attach to the many names of creatures of old mentioned throughout. That’s not to say this isn’t a fab book though in what it contains. I can imagine in paperback, it would have been epic to read and the flow wouldn’t have been interrupted like it was with my audiobook.
It contains a bounty of information and a lot of informative content. It can make it a lot if read in big chunks at a time and would probably benefit to split this one up and read over a longer space of time to allow the info to sink in! Another thing I didn’t do as I only had a few days until my library audiobook was returned.
It was hypnotic and atmospheric to listen too even though my recall of a lot of this knowledge isn’t the best, I think upon a second reading I could learn a lot more. There seemed to be a lot and it was a fair overwhelming amount of information! It doesn’t go easy on you but it’s great in its depth. Perfect for those of a mind for palaeontology and history and I absolutely love reading about this subject. I did think this one would perhaps be a bit more whimsical, lighthearted and less heavy but it was great for amount of knowledge it had in it.
I struggled to give it a rating as the audiobook was not necessarily the best for me but it doesn’t reflect on how good the book actually was, so I think the book itself was about 4 for the amazing range of information but probably a 2 for my current enjoyment of it.
It contains a bounty of information and a lot of informative content. It can make it a lot if read in big chunks at a time and would probably benefit to split this one up and read over a longer space of time to allow the info to sink in! Another thing I didn’t do as I only had a few days until my library audiobook was returned.
It was hypnotic and atmospheric to listen too even though my recall of a lot of this knowledge isn’t the best, I think upon a second reading I could learn a lot more. There seemed to be a lot and it was a fair overwhelming amount of information! It doesn’t go easy on you but it’s great in its depth. Perfect for those of a mind for palaeontology and history and I absolutely love reading about this subject. I did think this one would perhaps be a bit more whimsical, lighthearted and less heavy but it was great for amount of knowledge it had in it.
I struggled to give it a rating as the audiobook was not necessarily the best for me but it doesn’t reflect on how good the book actually was, so I think the book itself was about 4 for the amazing range of information but probably a 2 for my current enjoyment of it.