5/24/2023 0 Comments Wicked plants by amy stewartWould you listen to Wicked Bugs again? Why? But in general this book is a short bug encyclopedia written by someone who professes not to be qualified for such an endeavor and so it is not worth it. The narration was great! And the information was interesting if a little repetitive, so I give it two stars for that. Instead the chapter on the louse was only a few minutes long and simply said that Napoleon's army may have been weakened by Louse and the diseases they carried, so that they were overcome easily by the Russian winter. From the title "The Louse that Conquered Napoleon." I was expecting detailed and interesting histories highlighting 10 or 20 bugs, and how they have changed human history. As a result the individual entries/chapters are short and often contain only basic information. As one reviewer said it would be better on paper. The book is long and gives a survey of hundreds of "bugs," to the point where they blend together and get confusing. It reads like an arbitrarily put together reference guide on "bugs," (in the broad sense), written by a non-scientist/non-doctor. Though the introduction claims this book is NOT a reference guide or to be used as one, that is how it is written and how it reads.
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