Comments on: The Wild Trees http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/ Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Baby Got Books » Cultural Ephemera http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-38530 Baby Got Books » Cultural Ephemera Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:08:01 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-38530 [...] The Washington Post Book World has a rave review of The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. Of course, their review ran after BGB’s blogging monkeys RaeRae and Nitro commented on it here. I’m just sayin’… This ebola-free monkey just made the connection that the author, Richard Preston, is the same Richard Preston that wrote The Hot Zone. The man can drop some science on you. [...] [...] The Washington Post Book World has a rave review of The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. Of course, their review ran after BGB’s blogging monkeys RaeRae and Nitro commented on it here. I’m just sayin’… This ebola-free monkey just made the connection that the author, Richard Preston, is the same Richard Preston that wrote The Hot Zone. The man can drop some science on you. [...]

]]> By: Baby Got Books » The Wild Trees - Awesome recommendation http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-37357 Baby Got Books » The Wild Trees - Awesome recommendation Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:28:01 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-37357 [...] RaeRae’s recommendation for The Wild Trees was so compelling that I decided to check it out even though I had absolutely no interest in the topic.  Contrary to RaeRae’s first sentence, I wasn’t captivated by the redwoods and had never even thought about them.  Since I finished the book - I can’t stop thinking about these trees to the point that we are now trying to plan a trip out to the Redwood forest in the fall.  Furthermore, I am now compulsively staring at all the trees in my neighborhood and trying to figure out how tall they are, what type of ecosystem might exist on them and whether it is climbable or not.  [...] [...] RaeRae’s recommendation for The Wild Trees was so compelling that I decided to check it out even though I had absolutely no interest in the topic.  Contrary to RaeRae’s first sentence, I wasn’t captivated by the redwoods and had never even thought about them.  Since I finished the book – I can’t stop thinking about these trees to the point that we are now trying to plan a trip out to the Redwood forest in the fall.  Furthermore, I am now compulsively staring at all the trees in my neighborhood and trying to figure out how tall they are, what type of ecosystem might exist on them and whether it is climbable or not.  [...]

]]> By: Weezie http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-32107 Weezie Thu, 31 May 2007 22:18:21 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-32107 You vastly overestimate the size of my couch. But you all are welcome to come on out and climb trees. I will definitely pick up this book. And I have no comment on the social value of whatever it was I was up to in the 80's in South Florida. . . You vastly overestimate the size of my couch. But you all are welcome to come on out and climb trees. I will definitely pick up this book. And I have no comment on the social value of whatever it was I was up to in the 80′s in South Florida. . .

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-32048 DJ Cayenne Thu, 31 May 2007 18:22:53 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-32048 Hey! *Boom da Boom Boom* Your Mama! Rae Rae is talking crazy if she thinks that new worlds were not being discovered at the Sorbonne of South Florida. Dr J: I have not seen read "Boonville," but I am looking forward to your post. Hey! *Boom da Boom Boom* Your Mama!

Rae Rae is talking crazy if she thinks that new worlds were not being discovered at the Sorbonne of South Florida.

Dr J: I have not seen read “Boonville,” but I am looking forward to your post.

]]> By: Dr J http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-32034 Dr J Thu, 31 May 2007 17:41:42 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-32034 Harmonic convergence: Have any of you Yamma Yammans read "Boonville"? (I think RaeRae did.) It was recommended to me as "the west coast version of 'A Confederacy of Dunces.'" It's not even remotely that, but it is a pretty funny novel about a former U of M baseball player in small-town Northern California. That's a deceptively simple description of the book, by the way, but it fits for this crowd. Harmonic convergence: Have any of you Yamma Yammans read “Boonville”? (I think RaeRae did.) It was recommended to me as “the west coast version of ‘A Confederacy of Dunces.’” It’s not even remotely that, but it is a pretty funny novel about a former U of M baseball player in small-town Northern California. That’s a deceptively simple description of the book, by the way, but it fits for this crowd.

]]> By: RaeRae http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-32015 RaeRae Thu, 31 May 2007 16:57:49 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-32015 What kills me is that these guys are the same age as some of us. I was in college when Sillett was in college. I was not, however, climbing redwoods with my bare hands and discovering new worlds. Not even close! Yamma Yamma. What kills me is that these guys are the same age as some of us. I was in college when Sillett was in college. I was not, however, climbing redwoods with my bare hands and discovering new worlds. Not even close! Yamma Yamma.

]]> By: Dr J http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-31974 Dr J Thu, 31 May 2007 14:31:25 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-31974 I'll be very surprised if the tree climbing guy in Candler Park isn't swamped by all the new bidness this book brings his way. I read this book immediately after RR put it down (no, I did not give it to her for Mother's Day just so I could read it when she finished it--okay, maybe I did), and I can't recommend it highly enough. Richard Preston absolutely captivated me with the first article he published about these guys in the New Yorker a couple of years ago. I remember thinking, "Wow, that article was worth the price of my year's subscription." He is a phenomenal writer. I can't think of anyone else who explains rather arcane science so well to people like me, decided non-scientists, and combines that ability with dazzling narrative skills and a droll sense of humor. The characters he describes in this (non-fiction!) book are unforgettable, and they literally open up a new world for us. Again, everybody knew about these 300-foot trees but no one had ever thought to climb them before, and the people who did found previously undiscovered--unimagined, even--ecosystems. While reading this I wondered what new worlds are around me that I haven't been curious enough to discover. And I really wanted to go climb a tree. That's the highest praise I can think of for this book. I’ll be very surprised if the tree climbing guy in Candler Park isn’t swamped by all the new bidness this book brings his way.
I read this book immediately after RR put it down (no, I did not give it to her for Mother’s Day just so I could read it when she finished it–okay, maybe I did), and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Richard Preston absolutely captivated me with the first article he published about these guys in the New Yorker a couple of years ago. I remember thinking, “Wow, that article was worth the price of my year’s subscription.” He is a phenomenal writer. I can’t think of anyone else who explains rather arcane science so well to people like me, decided non-scientists, and combines that ability with dazzling narrative skills and a droll sense of humor.
The characters he describes in this (non-fiction!) book are unforgettable, and they literally open up a new world for us. Again, everybody knew about these 300-foot trees but no one had ever thought to climb them before, and the people who did found previously undiscovered–unimagined, even–ecosystems. While reading this I wondered what new worlds are around me that I haven’t been curious enough to discover. And I really wanted to go climb a tree.
That’s the highest praise I can think of for this book.

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-31953 DJ Cayenne Thu, 31 May 2007 13:38:44 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/05/31/the-wild-trees/#comment-31953 RR: Sounds like we need to organize a road trip to San Francisco for an outing to the Muir Woods. We can all stay on Weezie's couch. It's also interesting to learn that the tree climbing guy in candler Park is actually a "going concern" - I've always wondered what that guy was up to. RR: Sounds like we need to organize a road trip to San Francisco for an outing to the Muir Woods. We can all stay on Weezie’s couch.

It’s also interesting to learn that the tree climbing guy in candler Park is actually a “going concern” – I’ve always wondered what that guy was up to.

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