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title: "The Bees Audio CD – Audiobook, 6 May 2014"
brand: "laline paull"
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# The Bees Audio CD – Audiobook, 6 May 2014

**Brand:** laline paull
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## Customer Reviews

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    Drama in the bee hive
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2017*

Being an assistant bee-keeper this book was a bit hard to get into at first. I got the concept of what the author was trying to do. Having bees running down corridors to visit the nursery, or the Queen in her chamber of white ornate wax. This doesn't quite reflect reality so it was a push to suspend belief.The story revolves around bee 717 who learns the ways and intricacies of hive life and its sweet.Then comes the action.In the author notes, one of her younger family members had read a draft version had given her the feedback to include more violence. Yes, she listened. Sometimes to horrifying effect.Things then got very Dystopian, with priestesses walking around demanding that everyone OBEY, SERVE, PROTECT at all costs. And I do mean all costs. The punishment for disobedience to the holy mother was severe indeed.In all, the author has done her research well and our intrepid bees fight off all the usual suspects. Wasps, mice, Foul Brood (disease), winter and the impact of humans on the environment.I was rushing through pages at some points and gripped with intrigue.Whatever the accuracy - Bee 717 you will always have a place in my heart, and you can't say fairer than that!.

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    Novel set in a beehive somewhere in ENGLAND
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2016*

The Bees is an excellent and thought-provoking read. It is a very worthwhile addition to the anthropomorphic tradition of books like Wind In The Willow and Watership Down. What, I wonder, is it in our psyche that draws us to humanise the lives and thoughts of animals and insects?The book describes the birth, life, and death of Flora. She was born into the hive as a humble sanitation worker – cleaning up and removing the dead bodies of her sisters. But she, very unusually for a bee of her class, has the ability to talk and question the meaning of her existence. She is brave and saves the colony from a deadly wasp attack – and is rewarded by spending time in the queen’s serene presence. She is ‘promoted’ to be a forager and responsible, with her fellow foragers, for bringing in the nectar and pollen on which everyone depends so precariously for life.The Bees is not sentimental in describing the life of the hive. From the mating of a drone with the queen (and his subsequent immediate death), to the ‘removal’ of sick bees, to the contraction of the colony as winter approaches – surviving drones and the older and weaker bees are all thrown out, to the issues that a queen-less colony can face, everything is told in a matter of fact way. Life for a bee can be very hard.We learn a great deal about nature as we read The Bees. We get to know the evil and devious methods that wasps and spiders use to attract their prey. We get familiar with what flowers bloom at which season of the year, and we are taught how to recognise different pollens. Did you, for example, know that poppy pollen is black? We even find out the devastating impact of searching for pollen in a field of rape seed that has just been sprayed with deadly chemicals. And did you (I swear this is true) know that a forager returning to the hive performs a complicated dance to indicate to other foragers the precise direction and distance of the pollen she has found?The Bees also explains to us the thought that the colony is the ‘creature’ and that the bees are the cells that make it up. The Hive Mind can override personal thoughts and control their actions. Groups think can take over and drive behaviour.Laline Paull has written a really great book which I wholeheartedly recommend. If you want to understand the life of the hive – and enjoy a really good story at the same time – then this is absolutely for you. You will be totally fascinated. The most memorable book I have read for quite a while.

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    If Bee Movie went dark...
  

*by G***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2019*

This book has been raved about so much that I suspect I must be missing something as I did not enjoy it at all and couldn't even read to the end. I have given it two stars as I think the concept is brilliant and I did like the writing style. My biggest issue was with the protagonist, Flora, who I could not warm to and actually started to dislike as the story progressed. Her arrogance, overinflated ego and selfishness made it very hard to care what happened to her. Flora's constant rule breaking with no consequences became a necessary plot device so the many different aspects of the hive could be explored. However it very quickly became repetitive and I eventually lost interest. Many parts of the story made me think of a darker version of Bee Movie too which somewhat ruined the reading experience. I'm disappointed that I did not enjoy this as the premise was so promising.

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