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'Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures' by Merlin Sheldrake is fascinating. He explains in unexpectedly poetic language what is known about the variety of fungi from observations and experiments.
I had no idea fungi came in so many forms - from the microscopic living inside of cells to the visible residing in forests and oceans. We see them primarily when fruiting as mushrooms or truffles, or when growing stalks out of insects they have infected. But the ...more
I had no idea fungi came in so many forms - from the microscopic living inside of cells to the visible residing in forests and oceans. We see them primarily when fruiting as mushrooms or truffles, or when growing stalks out of insects they have infected. But the ...more
Very very interesting, but it is not for everybody, because even if the stories of the fungi are interesting, they are not soooo exciting, or at last not so much, IMHO obviously.
Molto molto interessante, ma non credo lo sia per tutti, perché per quanto notevoli, le storie dei funghi non sono poi cosí appassionanti, o almeno questa é la mia impressione.
Molto molto interessante, ma non credo lo sia per tutti, perché per quanto notevoli, le storie dei funghi non sono poi cosí appassionanti, o almeno questa é la mia impressione.
2.5 stars really. This book felt like it waffled between amazing information about the world of fungi and boring monotony of details about things that seemed less interesting to me. I really enjoyed some of the chapters. Other chapters I endured. It didn't help that I did the audiobook version and the authors voice always sounded so bored that even the truly interesting content sometimes felt unexciting.
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