Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education By Michael Pollan, Narrated by Michael Pollan (Read via Audible.com)
I expected that his book would contain some background on gardening… I did not expect 9 hours of complete obsession over the subject including diving deep intellectual thought over the very nature of nature of planting, zen design, seeds etc.. This book made me realize that there is definitely a book for everyone about every subject.
Don’t get me wrong I loved Omnivores Dilemma, and In Defense of Food. But this book is on a whole another level about gardening ethics and principals. It did contain a lot of good history of modern suburban agriculture and core principals that were established with the founding of the States. Its just that this book was very long. Too long. It felt like that someone could have chopped this down to 2/3’rd its size, without loosing and information. It was defiantly at 2x speed for most the book.
6/10
