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  • Mycophilia

  • Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms
  • Auteur(s): Eugenia Bone
  • Narrateur(s): Aimee Jolson
  • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
  • 4,5 out of 5 stars (21 évaluations)

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Mycophilia

Auteur(s): Eugenia Bone
Narrateur(s): Aimee Jolson
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In Mycophilia, accomplished food writer and cookbook author Eugenia Bone examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen, and ultimately discovers that a greater understanding of fungi is key to facing many challenges of the 21st century. Engrossing, surprising, and packed with up-to-date science and cultural exploration, Mycophilia is part narrative and part primer for foodies, science buffs, environmental advocates, and anyone interested in learning a lot about one of the least understood and most curious organisms in nature.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2011 Eugenia Bone (P)2014 Audible Inc.

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Great Fun

anyone interested in mushrooms will enjoy this lighthearted foray into the subject of mycology.

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Slightly misleading

With a title like Mycophilia, one could expect it to be a scientific text about fungi, specifically the revelations about mycelium, which the book dips its toes in before spending far too long belabouring the agricultural industry of fungal fruiting bodies in the USA, picking and cuisine of edible mushrooms, and various forays and workshops about mushroom picking. I understand now that Eugenia Bone is not a scientist, which is obvious in this book.

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Excellent!

If you are at all interested in mushrooms, this is the book for you. Eugenia Bone has a wonderful way of describing the material, and the book is very well-rounded. This is also the type of book you can enjoy more than once!

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Most Excellent!

I very much enjoyed this book! The subject is discussed in a conversational tone and the content is quite rich with detail. A must listen for all the foodies out there! #Audible1

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I wanted to like this but… racist descriptions turned me off

This book had some interesting info, but a few racist descriptions of people who pick wild mushrooms for the commercial trade really turned me off the whole book. At one point the author says she’s able to tell the “races” of a group of men working on their trucks by their head & body shape??! Pretty sure “race” as a form of physiological categorization was debunked many many decades ago. In any case, I decided to return the book. I am utterly disappointed as I was looking forward to this listen.

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This book was like a peak into.another world

I absolutely loved this audio. It had just the right touch of humor and interesting science to keep me drawn in . I really liked the pace at which it was read . It was a perfect entry into mycophilia that makes me want to dive deeper into the research and discoveries to come.

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  • Rs 🦇
  • 2019-11-25

Absolutely awful, insufferable, racist author

This is the worst book I have ever purchased. The majority of this book is the author describing people in an insufferable wanna-be rollingstone-esque tone, focusing on people’s dress, demeanor, and her judgements of them, as well as CONSTANTLY reminding you she is a New Yorker, wears all black, and doesn’t fit in with the people she’s ‘investigating’. Then it gets to the part about migrant mushroom pickers and she just goes full blown racist. I would say less than half of this book is about mushrooms and the majority of scientific discussion is glossed over or disregarded with blatant disinterest by the author herself. Unbelievably bad. STAY AWAY

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  • ilaria m
  • 2020-04-28

What is the point of this book?

A rambling lengthy tale of Ms Bone going to look for mushrooms with other amateurs and having nice or not so nice dinners. Maybe it gets better after three hours - I had wasted enough time by then. Lengthy pointless descriptions and a lot of uninteresting detail, but not about mushrooms: about the quirks of US mushroom enthusiasts.

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  • David P.
  • 2018-06-29

Keep browsing, there are better choices available

I really wanted to like this book. It does contain "some" useful information. I downloaded the audio version for a long drive. If it had been a paper version, I would have put it down.
The author uses a chatty gossipy and often condescending writing style that can most charitably be described as annoying.
Can't recommend it.

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  • Snids
  • 2021-01-19

Returned

If you enjoy tight, informative science writing with a dash of wit, you will hate this book. This ain't Mary Roach. As other reviewers have pointed out, this book is less about mushrooms and more about the author and her supposed mushroom hunting "adventures" among the common folk. Filled with tedious, pointless details and the rambling personal observations of a person with apparently very little life experience, as I listened all I could think was "Get on with it . . ." Top that off with a narrator mispronouncing key words (repeatedly pronouncing the 's' in Illinois, even after the author made a joke about how doing so identified her to the locals as an interloper), and you've got one big fail. I rarely give up completely on an audio book, but this one was a waste of time.

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  • Farmer Don
  • 2016-07-22

Good book, shockingly bad narration

The book and content was good. Interesting and accessible.

But I had no idea one could become an audiobook narrator while mispronouncing so many basic English words. I don't mean the Latin names or location names (though it was clear no effort was even made to sound these out). No, I mean basic English words were said completely wrong. Reminded me of my college roommate who pronounced Viagra "vee-ah-gra".

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  • Tyler. Pelletier
  • 2017-01-21

Lots of interesting stories

Plenty of interesting stories and information but it doesn't go into many details on particular subjects like growing or identification.

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  • Craig Carlson
  • 2017-06-12

Very interesting at every turn

I don't have much to add to all the other reviews I've seen of this book. The only downside is the quality of the recording. It sounds like it was recorded on a laptop.

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  • mathew
  • 2016-05-08

Not just about food

If you could sum up Mycophilia in three words, what would they be?

Solid Mushroom information

Who was your favorite character and why?

There is only the narrator, however she talks at length about the characters she has met while mushroom hunting

Have you listened to any of Aimee Jolson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

first time listener

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed out loud several times. I was also shocked and stunned by several factoids as well.

Any additional comments?

It took me a bit of time to warm up to the tone of the author. I thought that it would basically be all about food and strange mushroom people. The content is far deeper and incredibly well researched with lots of solid thinking and deduction about her own experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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  • Molly Brooks
  • 2021-01-13

good book, many bizarre narration mistakes

this is a lovely journey into one woman’s hyperfixation on mushrooms and the places that takes her, but it has been done a disservice by the narrator who, among other strange errors, repeatedly pronounced illinois as “ill-annoys” and orchard as “orchid.” she referred to the newest version of something as the “latest incarceration of” x, and when north korean leader kim jung il appeared in the book gifting someone a box of expensive mushrooms, she called him “kim jung the second.” the editing could have been better as well, as many times the latin names of various mushrooms were preceded by a loooong pause. i’m not fussy, but all of these weird missteps distracted me from an excellent book that functioned well as both an intimate personal narrative, and as a thorough overview of the mushroom industry’s past and future.

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  • Denny
  • 2018-06-23

Not for me

I thought it was going an enlightening book on mushroom identification, it was not, I was very disappointed.

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