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All that the rain promises and more	Customer Rating:
Very good descriptions and pictures. More than just a guide book, also interesting and funny stories. In all an excellent book.

my husband LOVES this book	Customer Rating:
This is a very informative but still fun guide to western mushrooms. I bought it because my husband borrowed it from a friend, then promptly lost it, so we had to replace it. Now my husband wants me to order another one for himself.

Yay!	Customer Rating:
This book is so wonderful! It's a great resource for the novice mycologist with beautiful color photos and detailed descriptions. The best thing about this book is the authors' light-hearted yet knowledgeable approach...more scientists should have this much fun!

More than a basic guide	Customer Rating:
All That the Rain Promises, and More ...: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms is more than just a field guide, it is an entertaining book packed with information, photos, and recipes. It's also the perfect size for mushroom hunting trips, as it won't take up all the room in your basket. I have used this book since I started mushroom hunting four years ago, and it was well worth the money.

An Excellent Hip-Pocket Guide and Nothing More.

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I live in Minnesota and I bought this book in December. Obviously, I haven't had a chance to use it for its intended purpose but it looks extremely promising. I purchased this book because I am highly interested in mushroom hunting and the like. This book is purely a hip-pocket (not hip as in cool, mind you) guide and completely supplementary to another book written by the same author, Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi. All That the Rain Promises does not go into extreme depth on all of the different types of mushrooms, rather it gives you an intimate portrait of each mushroom; where it's found, what it looks like, edibility and often anecdotes about the particular mushroom for the sake of identification purposes are included as well as color photos of mushrooms in their natural habitat. It references Mushrooms Demystified for further reading. Really, don't buy this book without also buying Mushrooms Demystified. I wouldn't feel comfortable going on a mushroom hunt having simply read this book.