Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

I have all 3 versions of this book (digital, paperback, & hardback abridged) & I love them all for different reasons. Digital- easier to read when traveling or in bed. Paperback- this version, easier to flip thru & reference & overall the most enjoyable version IMO. NOTE - the last25-30% of this book is full of references/acknowledgements (see picture). So you can see how much info is in here. If you want ALL the details & have 1 choice- THIS IS THE VERSION to have.

This book changed how I see the world! Fascinating. Solid science (not a science journalist trying to get the facts right). The author reads the audio book and is a bit dry, at first. But speaking his own words is very compelling.

A group of us read this book together and we loved it! Such great discussions and learning! Thank you Merlin~!

We often forget about fungi, this book is a reason NOT to do so.

Enjoyed the writing and the content.

I must admit I am a stickler for good writing. Whether it’s a novel or nonfiction, I relish a writer’s ability to put ideas into well-written words. British writers seem especially adept at writing English, just as British actors seem so adept at acting in English. Partly it may be learned growing up there or maybe schools there expect a higher level of writing. In any case, this young man has well earned my praise for his book as well his well-deserved professorial appointment and skill in scientific research. At a young age he’s already at the top!This is not my field of study, but no matter how ignorant you might be in biology or fungi, I guarantee you will find him easy to follow and you’ll come to appreciate how valuable and necessary are fungi to the life of a forest or a field or anywhere really. Our earth is now at risk and fungi play a vital role - as you will come to learn. Read it!

I really hate to sound like a fangirl, but I will make an exception for this book. It has been years since I read a book that I was truly sad to finish, but when I turned a page and saw the word "epilogue" at the beginning of the next, I was genuinely bummed knowing I will never get to read this book again for the first time.Is it full of fascinating facts about fungi? Certainly. But it was actually the writing that made reading this book such a joy. Sheldrake's prose is lively and clever, but above all it is richly sensual--something you don't usually find in scientific non-fiction. There is an earthiness and intimacy, even a subtle eroticism, that befits the subject matter, and conjures a sense of vicarious experience. If you didn't think lichens were sexy before, Sheldrake will persuade you.Enmeshed (dare one say like fungal hyphae?) with the bare facts is another, more introspective narrative about Sheldrake's own evolution as a scientist and a person, via his deepening relationship with his subject. Indeed, relationality is a theme that repeatedly emerges in this work; evidently, it is something fungi can teach us a lot about. While many scientists undoubtedly grow through their relationships with their research subjects, in my experience few are reflective enough to realize it, let alone lean into it and write a book about it.Highly recommended for mushroom nerds, fans of fungal medicine, ecologists, animists, and all symbionts alike.

Fascinating read on fungi, all around us but little known.

El unico detalle es que la portada del libro solo es papel, no viene impreso en la cubierta, y es un papel que si no lo cuidas se daña, si se moja no hay forma de recuperarlo y tu libro quedaria sin portada, fuera de eso el contenido es hermoso

This read was eye-opening, captivating, informative, and a true best seller! I couldn’t put it down !

This is an amazing book that will open your mind to a different world.Although somewhat scientific it is still very accessible to anyone who has an interest in the biodiversity of this planet.I passed it on to my granddaughter who is studying biology at A level and she was delighted.

I never liked mushrooms, they seemed wierd to me all the time but this book changed my point of view! What an incredible content it was!

Das Buch ist ganz besonders interessant.