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joelmeador's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
3.5
pretty solid, weird ending chapter, intersting
tophat8855's review against another edition
3.0
There is a lot we don’t understand about plants. It’s good to read a book straight from the person who has researched them, instead of a reporter who is just working on a book as a project- this is his life. Lots of good stories and anecdotes. Probably a good audiobook, but I read the physical book.
woodsyowl's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
This was everything I wish Entangled Life had been. It explained plants in a scientific way but didn’t over complicate it, it explained things inspired by plants from structural architecture to robots, and I especially enjoyed the author’s info about plants and future space travel and the studies he has personally done around this. Really good and the narrator of the audiobook version was great, I’d recommend it.
kelamity_reads's review against another edition
informative
3.0
An interesting enough read, but I found the author to be a little too creative with their interpretations and explanations of scientific phenomena.
I'd personally recommend other books on plant behaviour before recommending this one.
I'd personally recommend other books on plant behaviour before recommending this one.
mikecross's review against another edition
2.0
This could be very interesting and fascinating, and I'm certain the author is very knowledgeable. However, the book so haphazardly written that it losses its meaning. The subjects are disjointed, never tied together, and often the author goes off on an unrelated tangent that has almost nothing to do with plants. It's half a plant book, half a life story. Just poor execution.
deadscreen's review against another edition
3.0
As someone who has a MS in Horticultural Biology, I enjoyed a lot of the history and examples provided in this book. However, I found many of the "motives" ascribed to the plants or mechanisms in these examples difficult to swallow. After reading this book, I almost feel a better title would be "The Revolutionary Genius of Evolution: A New Understanding of How Natural Selection Has Overcome Selection Pressures Against Immovable Life Forms". I felt like the author went too far in implying that plants have any form of conscious choice in any of their "actions" and that anything other than chemistry and natural selection was at play here. That being said, I really enjoyed the chapters on architectural inspirations taken from plants, plants in space, and organization. It was very interesting to hear these perspectives, regardless of whether I agreed with them or not. Not an overly difficult read, even if you don't have a background in plant science.
officialgrittynhl's review
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.25