While I am astonished at Merlin Sheldrake’s breath of scientific knowledge and admire his ability to communicate it in “Entangled Life,” the writing itself, the style and voice did not bring that knowledge to life. Entangled Life read like a textbook. If you want to study fungi, then it’s almost essential. I wouldn’t be surprised if college professors are already making it assigned reading.
Philosophically, however, for me it broke no new ground, expressing themes, conjectures, the interconnectedness of the natural world and our unavoidable changing interaction with it – ideas expressed by many others, notably Michael Pollan.
Rating a book like this one is difficult. Two stars for style and originality, and five stars for textbook scientific knowledge.
