Buzzkill
A Wild Wander Through the Weird and Threatened World of Bugs

Incredibly fascinating book on insects and their impact on the world. I learned an incredible amount of information, some of which was quite disgusting, but for the most part helped me understand the role of insects in this world. My only complaint about the book was that it was very stream of consc......more

Some books demand to be shared – the stories are just too good, the facts just too amazing. Buzzkill is one of those wild rides, full of mind-blowing information – a person has 650 muscles, a caterpillar has 4,000; there is an insect that hitchhikes on the face of a butterfly; the cheetah has nothin......more

DNF at 34%. While the subject matter is interesting, the writing style is too annoying. The author tries to be conversational, but does it work a mixture of dumbing down her content at times and occasionally condescending toward the reader. It's about 1/3 actually interesting content with no gross u......more

“Nature, man! Nature is freaking awesome.” The first chapter is an overwhelming infodump obviously designed to weed out the unserious. After that, a flow and focus develops with pollinators, although this chapter lures the reader into believing they are still reading something mostly informational, w......more