Reviews for Animal Review: An Objective Critique of the Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature

The average rating for Animal Review: An Objective Critique of the Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-26 00:00:00 Sara Goldfeder [image error]

Review # 2 was written on 2010-02-28 00:00:00 Keith Malkani I received this book through the Goodreads First reads program. The Animal Review is very much a book of the information age. Reading this outgrowth of Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash's blog is as low-commitment as browsing a website. They divide the animal kingdom into four common sense categories (land, sky, water and other) and, after a brief discussion of positive and negative attributes, assign a letter grade. Set this book on your bedside table, kitchen counter or anywhere else you can pick it up for a few moments' amusement and lay it down guilt-free. This is a low maintenance book. If you can't commit the full three minutes to reading an entry, flip open to any page, look at a graphic and read the hilarious caption. Bam! Instant funny in less time than it takes to switch on your laptop and log on. There is no subsistute for nestling into a favorite armchair and escaping for a few hours into the intricate landscape of a great novel, but if you're pressed for time The Review offers a multitude of brief diversions. I thoroughly enjoyed daytripping into their world: equal parts scientific insight and witty observation, with just a dash of oddball, juvenile zanyness. I was laughing so hard I barely noticed that I was learning something.