Fabulous story! I purchased the book AND the audiobook-that is how much I enjoyed learning about the different Octopuses (Octopi is incorrect-first thing you learn from the book), their personalities, characteristics, habits, and capacity to interact humans. While reading, the writing was smooth and story flowed easily. Listening to the audiobook was incredibly relaxing.
Just knowing after reading & hearing about these multi-talented beings, I felt such a connection and immediately wanted to go and find one for myself. However, I am of the thought that wild animals need to stay in their original habitat, and rarely do octopuses that need help not go back into the ocean.
Whether you are a person who loves marine life/the beach or, like me, loves the mountains, this story of multiple octopuses and their adventures with the human world will touch your heart and make you a better person.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did! Highly recommended!
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Elegant book: Stories of the world's most alien and beguiling creature
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2015
The Soul of an Octopus is an eloquent book about human-animal communication, about animal consciousness and about love. Delightfully and poetically written, it is a compilation of anecdotes exploring the author’s growing understanding of alien and exotic world of the octopus as well as her communications with scientists in this field. Ms. Montgonery does not shy away from scientific research and philosophical inquiry but overall it is a story about heart implicitly the meaning of life.She touches some profoundly deeper questions. What does it mean to be alive? To be conscious? To communicate with another? There are scientists who give no credence to the concept of consciousness. I prefer to think of us as human animals and others as non-human animals. I suggest that as expained by certain philosophies, the universe is made of consciousness and all beings share the same consciousness reflected through their varied nervous systems. We have all recognized self and other, self in other, other in self, simultaneously, when we connect with the eyes of a living being.There are many unanswered questions. Why would a creature born as floating plankton and living a mostly solitary life chooses to communicate with humans, and to display be affection and playfulness? Explore this with Ms. Montgonery. This is an extraordinarily profound and unique book, and I commend it to everyone to broaden their understanding of life and octopodes while enjoying her flowing and elegant writing. Kudos to Ms. Montgonery for a masterpiece.
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2015
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