Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

5 Responses to “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life”

1. Mark Henry says:

   March 21, 2010 at 12:00 am

   If you are into this type of book-Mother Planet style organic guilt trip-then by all means buy it and enter into an emotional, ultra-biased flood of planet worshiping brain drano. If not then don’t waste your money on this pretend manifesto. Buy some facts not some stream-of-conscious land-fill fodder.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
2. Kelly Callen Figiel says:

   March 21, 2010 at 2:54 am

   This book is one that I have not been able to place down, inspired me , and I recommended it to my three sisters. So why the one star… I’ll get to that disappointment in a minute. For the first 280 pages I have loved this book. I loved the webpage. Talked about it nonstop with my spouse and vegetarian in-laws. It shows how the local movement of food is necessary and needed by Americans. It inspired me to finally reflect of a way to use my 15 acres of unused pasture- heritage animals. I loved the commentary and at points laughed out loud. So the problem? On page 205 when Ms. Kingsolver pointed out the organic farmers “probably fo to church on Sunday but keep thier religion to themselves”. This was not the problem. Unfortuately, she can not apply the same thing to herself and became offensive about the birth of Christ on page 280. Too terrible. I will not read another page. Glad it was a library book. I can not recommend this one to anyone ever again.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
3. Linda Trawnik says:

   March 21, 2010 at 4:12 am

   If you are expecting the caliber of writing establish in Poisonwood Bible don’t get your hopes up and rush out to buy this one. It is a non fiction work describing in painful detail things like the life cycles of asparagus and acting as though you should be hanging on every word. For anyone additional than a vegetable garden fantasist the only excellent purpose for this book is that maybe you won’t need your Lunesta.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
4. Jett says:

   March 21, 2010 at 5:24 am

   This book was absolutely horrifying. I kept flipping back and into the world, and couldn’t judge what I was reading. While bringing about thoughts for a fantastic cause–buying local; building your own; sustainability; etc., Kingsolver, with sadistic humor, walks us through the process of killing innocent animals for food. It’s is absolutely shocking and sickening. In this century, the practice of killing animals for food is barbaric, and she proves where she stands on this issue. There are plenty of plant foods to sustain us all, lacking being cruel. Two thumbs down for Barbara Kinsolver. I used to be a fan. After reading this, I don’t want to be linked in any way with this leader.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
5. Anne Lincoln says:

   March 21, 2010 at 6:47 am

   I was foolish enough to order this book thinking it would give me some practical advice on organic farming–WRONG!!! The book is poorly organized, and as another reviewer stated “meandering”. In reality the book was just a rambling and not too well thought out political statement. I establish it not to have one iota of useful information.I also establish the book to be insulting toward Ms. Kingsolver’s Appalachian neighbors who have fed themselves for many generations lacking the help of this arrogant outsider coming into their lives with her superior attitude.
   
   I just want to warn others from buying this truly stupid book.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5