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318 reviews for:
Die erstaunliche Wahrheit über Tiere: Was Mythen und Irrtümer über uns verraten
Lucy Cooke
4.23 AVERAGE
318 reviews for:
Die erstaunliche Wahrheit über Tiere: Was Mythen und Irrtümer über uns verraten
Lucy Cooke
4.23 AVERAGE
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
challenging
informative
medium-paced
If I hadn’t JUST interviewed a hyena scientist I wouldn’t have known that there’s some boldly stated misinformation in this otherwise very hilarious book. Made me nervous about what else wasn’t true
More fun natural history! Did you know that hippos are related to whales? I did enjoy the audio version, although the author/reader has a bit of a shrill voice at times...
adventurous
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
I really tried to like this book. Really and truly. It’s about animals and I love animals. The messaging was wonderful and debunked a lot of myths I held. However, I listened to the audiobook and I found the readers voice very grating. It also felt like the prose within a chapter jumped from story to story with nothing connecting the messaging. Overall, I enjoyed the content and that’s what got me through the book.
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
funny
informative
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
So many good details, and interesting history in regards to animals. I'm pretty sure someone will be able to write another book like this in 200 years and we will look like fools too... if we don't fry the earth before then.
I read this book at my parent's place so I could shush them all and read bits and pieces to them. We all got quite an education. I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys animals.
I read this book at my parent's place so I could shush them all and read bits and pieces to them. We all got quite an education. I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys animals.
Very interesting and entertaining - lots of cool animal facts, though I'm bound to forget most of them again within a few weeks. Lucy Cooke goes through the history, myths (and their origins) and real facts about all the animals she covers, and it's clear she is passionate about the subject as well as extremely knowledgable.
Warning: there are some parts where she goes into detail about misguided and cruel experiments done on animals (in the name of science) which may be tough for sensitive people like myself to stomach. I found I could bear it because know they didn't do it to be cruel, and they didn't have the same sense of animal rights/compassion that is more commonplace these days, though the bat chapter in particular got a little rough.
A note on the audio book: she narrates it herself and I found her voice a little jarring. Also when she quotes something from any book written by a man she puts on the same kind of "hurr durr, I'm a man" voice (in lack of a better way to explain it) which gets a little tedious. But overall the narration is fine.
Warning: there are some parts where she goes into detail about misguided and cruel experiments done on animals (in the name of science) which may be tough for sensitive people like myself to stomach. I found I could bear it because know they didn't do it to be cruel, and they didn't have the same sense of animal rights/compassion that is more commonplace these days, though the bat chapter in particular got a little rough.
A note on the audio book: she narrates it herself and I found her voice a little jarring. Also when she quotes something from any book written by a man she puts on the same kind of "hurr durr, I'm a man" voice (in lack of a better way to explain it) which gets a little tedious. But overall the narration is fine.