Baltipink reviewed The Secret Life of Plants by Christopher Tompkins
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1 star
WTF did I just read? Ok. In truth I had to skim a lot of it because the writing is almost as awful as the content. I read this book for the research I'm doing on the year 1973 (related to a larger project on how we went from the civil rights era to the conservative/neoliberal one). The thousands of positive reviews of a book that speaks highly of known quacks, implies famines are just a lack of positive energy, and generally supports a lot of navel gazy bs seems like a pretty big clue as to how so many ppl do nothing useful when faced with horrible shit. The thousands (?!?) of positive reviewers seem to ignore the plants talk to aliens stuff and just focus on the support for organic agriculture. To me this book is so batshit it almost makes me question my support for organics. Honestly, …
WTF did I just read? Ok. In truth I had to skim a lot of it because the writing is almost as awful as the content. I read this book for the research I'm doing on the year 1973 (related to a larger project on how we went from the civil rights era to the conservative/neoliberal one). The thousands of positive reviews of a book that speaks highly of known quacks, implies famines are just a lack of positive energy, and generally supports a lot of navel gazy bs seems like a pretty big clue as to how so many ppl do nothing useful when faced with horrible shit. The thousands (?!?) of positive reviewers seem to ignore the plants talk to aliens stuff and just focus on the support for organic agriculture. To me this book is so batshit it almost makes me question my support for organics. Honestly, the spooks who wrote this thing trying to make organic sound nuts seems like one of the only logical explanations for why this book exists. I really need to go find something to read that will restore some faith in humanity now.