The writing could be tighter, but his wandering through his life is interesting. How he, an anthropologist developed into a pioneer in the field of forensics is interesting & funny, in rather horrible ways. (A corpse in the closet over the weekend - the poor janitor!) The development & reasoning behind the body farm is also interesting. See Mary Roache's book on corpses - she has a chapter on the body farm & does a wonderful job, too. ( )

Part true crime, part forensic anthropology, part personal history: a very interesting book about what happens to human bodies after death, and how our understanding of the degenerative process can help tell stories, deduce facts, and solve crimes. ( )

Nearly everyone has heard about the Body Farm. This books gives you the background on who Dr. Bill Bass is, his path from student to Body Farm, and a smattering of typical Bass cases. Great for hardcore forensics fans, could be too disturbing for the casual reader. ( )

This book is by the team that under the pseudonym of Jefferson Bass writes the “Body Farm” mysteries ("Carved in Bone" was the first of the series). This was their first book together—a memoir of Bill Bass’s career as a forensic anthropologist who founded the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee to study the decomposition of human corpses in order to be able to more accurately pinpoint the time of death. The book is fascinating with several case studies in addition to explanations of how a forensic anthropologist does his job. The introduction is written by Patricia Cornwall, author of The Body Farm which I read several years ago. She based her novel on Dr. Bass’s work and he appears in the book (under a pseudonym, of course). ( )

I found this book very informative, but not in a gory, boring way. I find this subject fascinating!! ( )