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Book Review of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Helpful Score: 1


I got about 3/4 of the way through this book and just couldn't read it anymore. Besides the human cadavers, there was a lot of detail about the use of animal cadavers (sometimes even live animals) and I just couldn't deal with it. While there is a comical lilt to some of Mary Roach's stories, there certainly wasn't enough to glue me to this book. I'd say, interesting but not for the squeamish.