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Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction New York Times Bestseller A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year

“Sy Montgomery’s
RANDOM STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS (and noteworthy passages):
--"I knew little about octopuses—not even that the scientifically correct plural is not octopi, as I had always believed (it turns out you can’t put a Latin ending—i—on a word derived from Greek, such as octopus)." Hey wow, just like my buddy Jeremy Nelson said!

It can weigh as much as a man and stretch as long as a car, yet it can pour its baggy, boneless body through an opening the size of an orange." Like that one octopus escape video I posted on Facebook a coupla months back that got so much attention .

--"they are classed within the invertebrates as mollusks, as are slugs and snails and clams, animals that are not particularly renowned for their intellect. Clams don’t even have brains." Ironic taxonomic company that the octopus keeps.

--Victor Hugo was such a woefully ignorant phuquetard when it came to the octopus.

--"Her black pupil is a fat hyphen in a pearly globe. Its expression reminds me of the look in the eyes of paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses: serene, all-knowing, heavy with wisdom stretching back beyond time." Same can be said about cuttlefish. Squids' eyes, by contrast, aren't so dreamy-looking.

--"As I stroke her with my fingertips, her skin goes white beneath my touch. White is the color of a relaxed octopus; in cuttlefish, close relatives of octopus, females turn white when they encounter a fellow female, someone whom they need not fight or flee." In the immortal words of Johnny Carson, "I did not know that!"

I’ve always harbored a fondness for monsters. Even as a child, I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. It had seemed to me that these monsters’ irritation was perfectly reasonable. Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion, so it was no wonder to me Godzilla was crabby; as for King Kong, few men would blame him for his attraction to pretty Fay Wray. (Though her screaming would have eventually put off anyone less patient than a gorilla.)" Haha, valid point.

--"'There’s always an effort to minimize emotion and intelligence in other species,' the New England Aquarium’s director of public relations, Tony LaCasse, said after I met Athena. 'The prejudice is particularly strong against fish and invertebrates,' agreed Scott." Against birds too, I would hasten to add.

--"Each arm seemed like a separate creature, with a mind of its own. In fact, this is almost literally true. Three fifths of octopuses’ neurons are not in the brain but in the arms." Just like discussed in the book "Other Minds."

--"And yet, this body, so unlike my own, was responding to my touch like a dog’s or a cat’s or a child’s. Even though her skin can change color and taste flavors, it, like mine, relaxes into a caress. And though her mouth is between her arms, and her saliva dissolves flesh, she, like me, clearly enjoys a good meal when she’s hungry." Aaww shucks.

--"If animals were conscious, according to one book, written by a Tufts University professor, dogs would untangle their leashes from poles and dolphins would leap out of tuna nets. (That author clearly doesn’t read Dear Abby. Why don’t those women leave their abusive husbands? Why won’t that couple just stop visiting the rude in-laws?)" Bingo.

--"'An aquarium without an octopus,' as the Victorian naturalist Henry Lee of Brighton, UK, wrote in 1875, 'is like a plum pudding without plums.'" Too bad Henry Lee couldn't slap some sense into Victor Hugo!

--"The eel was dreaming." Wow!

--"The students were supposed to refer to their animals by numbers in their research papers, but they ended up calling them by name: Jet Stream, Martha, Gertrude, Henry, Bob. Some were so friendly, Alexa said, 'they would lift their arms out of the water like a dog jumps up to greet you'—or like a child who wants to be lifted up and hugged." Jet Stream the Octopus = Jet the Dog?!?!

--"The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers." Must add this to my bucket list....

Name: R. Owings
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Who knew octopuses were so smart.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2023
Review: Loved the book. A must read for animal lovers. I highly recommend it.

Name: Kathy Powell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023
Review: Loved this book. It was written to explain the almost humanness of the octopus, which I never would have known without this read.

Name: Scott Stratton
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Engaging, interesting, and thoroughly great read.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2015
Review: Wonderful book. Almost everything I was looking for in a non-technical but not casual book on Octopus intelligence. Her writing is excellent, and her descriptions of her own and others emotional reactions to their experiences - even relationships - with the Octopuses they encounter are very well done and integral to understanding what the author is trying to convey: that these are alien creatures - yet nonetheless (to some extent) comprehensible to us, intelligent, communicative (including across the gulf of evolutionary time between our species), individuals beings worthy of our respect and friendship - not that all of nature shouldn't be respected, but in the sense of fellow travelers on the "sentient" pathway through life whether we are worthy of their respect and friendship remains to be seen. It is ironic and amusing to think we may even now be living in and continuing to build the cities - currently coastal and above water - that some far future Cephalopod Civilization may find the perfect homes; or which spur their further development. opOur opposable thumbs make us pretty awesome tool-users; imagine if Octopuses took up tool-use like we did!!!!

I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 for a few, relatively subjective reasons (others may find my reasons trifling, and give the full 5 stars):

— i think I wanted more stories/studies/etc. about the octopus, it's intelligence, and the state of research on it. What is currently "generally accepted" as known about them and what is not? There must certainly be many more stories (I hope) and studies demonstrating aspects of their intelligence/consciousness. I may have missed it somehow, but the famous (infamous?) "mirror" test for consciousness wasn't referred to; has it been tried? Why or why not? I suppose I wanted a bit more science and subject-based descriptions and less personal journey. Ditto on the many descriptions of the other animals in the Aquarium; maybe it's a bit OCD of me, but I found them annoying and distracting because I was so interested in reading the other parts of the book. The same could be said of the passages relating the many people that are part of the author's journey and personal life; however, these are kept to a minimum and in many ways enrich our understanding of the main theme; just to say it again: parts of the authors personal journey, and her and other people's emotional lives are integral to the book, and absolutely worth it. I enjoy and read about people, their lives, and much else of science and nature - I just wanted to read a focused book about octopus intelligence, emotions, etc. :-)

despite the foregoing criticism, while this book clearly contains some of that, it is still highly focused on the author's tireless (and courageous) curiosity as well as her relentless (though entirely empathetic) drive to create a bond with an individual of another species. Along the way I did learn and enjoy learning a lot about the Octopus and its mind and way of being in the world. It succeeds admirably - I picked it up one morning to kill a few minutes and couldn't put it down.

The other things that kept it from being a 5 was that her writing, while generally excellent, has the tendency to jump around quite a bit temporally - sometimes in the middle of relating sequential events. Combined with the necessary and interesting digressions into philosophy, cephalopod biology, etc. it can be confusing. It is as if she were torn between writing about Octopus souls and consciousness, etc. sprinkled with a few enlivening personal anecdotes vs. writing a straightforward, linear story of her life over this period of time. It is more the latter, but enough of the former to make it a mixture that is neither.

Finally, and this may bear on the other issues, is that it reads somewhat as if it were several articles/papers written over a period of time but stitched together - but stitched together pretty well, I should add, better than most I have read. Several chapters end on cliffhanger-type sentences; several start with fairly obvious "hook" sentences or paragraphs. Some seem much more like a magazine article relating a particular period in her life (like the scuba-diving stuff), and others more like typical "division of the content into chunks" type chapters. I don't begrudge an author needing to selling chunks of content first, especially given how long it may take a book to emerge and then survive the publishing endurance trial. I point it out mostly in the vain hope more authors will take better pains to write their books as a self-consistent whole; certainly with prior material reused appropriately, but it shouldn't be noticeable as such. I also mention it because this author does seem to have tried to do just that and succeeded more than many.

As it often seems to be the case, my few nit picks take up most of the review. Give the wrong impression, I want to say again it was a wonderful, enjoyable read.