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A review by happentobeshort
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
After reading Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, I had SUCH high hopes for this book. I thought it would be so exciting and engaging just like Merlin's. ALAS. IT WAS NOT THE CASE!!
It was still entertaining and interesting, just not as illuminating as I wanted it to be. It's quite obvious after like, half an hour or so (or I assume like 15 pages or so) that Pollan is coming at this topic from a botanical/gardener's lens and not a scientist, so the facts you get are not as in depth.
TLDR it was really interesting learning more about Opium, Caffeine and Mescaline, but it felt like I was reading several long form essays for different publications that were meshed together for each substance. Not bad! Just not what I expected.
It was still entertaining and interesting, just not as illuminating as I wanted it to be. It's quite obvious after like, half an hour or so (or I assume like 15 pages or so) that Pollan is coming at this topic from a botanical/gardener's lens and not a scientist, so the facts you get are not as in depth.
TLDR it was really interesting learning more about Opium, Caffeine and Mescaline, but it felt like I was reading several long form essays for different publications that were meshed together for each substance. Not bad! Just not what I expected.