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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Not as good as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, nor as informative. It focuses a bit too much on entertaining the reader and less on informing. It wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing but I don’t really find jokes about feces and the holes it can come out of that amusing. There were also some parts, by the end of the book in which I could feel the author trying to gross me out despite her saying at the start of this book that she will treat this subject with respect and not try to disgust the reader. Maybe I’m just too squeamish.
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July 20, 2017
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July 20, 2017
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July 26, 2017
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July 26, 2017
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Jul 27, 2017 06:09AM
Good review, Tudor. Nothing like a good Roach book too get the mind going and the laughter bubbling up. Sorry if you got a little put off by her graphic depictions, but science is not always daisies ;-)
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Matt wrote: "Good review, Tudor. Nothing like a good Roach book too get the mind going and the laughter bubbling up. Sorry if you got a little put off by her graphic depictions, but science is not always daisie..."Thank you. Stiff had its own share of graphic depictions yet I thought they were done better, they didn't feel like the main focus of certain chapters. Maybe it helped that the subject was really fascinating which made me more willing to ignore them and just focus on learning new stuff. With Gulp, there were moments when all I could think about was how disgusting that thing was. Still, the main reason why it gets 3 stars was because it lacked those "what?" moments that made Stiff such a fascinating and informative book.
