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Insectopedie (2010)

by Hugh Raffles(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Nonfiction

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review 1: The author definitely has some interesting stories to tell, but the book is very loosely organized around an alphabetical theme that is pretty contrived. Further, the interesting information is often buried amid a lot of exposition that neither informs nor moves things along. Given my interest in the subject, I really wanted to like this more and I do really like parts of it, but on the whole I found myself too often attempting to skim through it.
review 2: I figured I'd learn all sorts of interesting factoids about lots of different types of insects. Which I did. But the author is an anthropologist, so there's more about how humans live with insects than about insects themselves. Some of the entries were quite illuminating, including the one on Chernobyl, t... morehe one on global warming, the one on grasshoppers in the Sahel. But I really learned more than I wanted to know about the cult of cricket fighting in China and the pet trade in beetles in Japan. less

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