Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781617230141 (1617230146)
Publish date: November 25th 2014
Publisher: Current Trade
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I wish this book had diagrams and clearer COLOR pictures. The author did a decent job explaining the physiology and habits of octopuses, but even well-chosen words hardly do justice to the alienness of an octopus.
This rather thin book on octopuses is delivered in an easy-to-read, informal and occasionally juvenile style more suited to a magazine article than a science book, even a popular science book. There are some interesting facts (ok there are lots of interesting facts) but there is also too much space...
I'm going to bail out on this thing which I never do. I cannot imagine tackling the remaining 80 pages. This book has so many problems it isn't even funny, well it kind of is, unless you paid for this or your tax dollars paid to put it in a library. Let's get started:1. Chatty magazine-ish prose....
It reads like a book-length magazine article, or a series of them, anyway. Given that the author has a background in English and journalism, this is understandable, even if I don't particularly like the style. It's basically some octopus facts mixed in with octopus anecdotes and, of course, the re...
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