I just picked up Scoop by Evelyn Waugh and received my mooch of Stiff in the mail.
My husband finally asked me if maybe I have more books than I might be able to read. Umm, yes.
...
New Book Club:
Nights in Rodanthe
Dirty Secrets Club
The Quickie
My Sister's Keeper
I also have Atonement, Stiff, and The Poisonwood Bible all coming in the near future from BookMooch as well.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
... in that time period.
Dali & I by Stan Lauryssens---Memoir (according to the author) concerning Dali forgeries.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach---nonfiction. The subtitle says it all. Very humorous but not for the squimish.
The Treatment & The Cure by Pet ...
... In addition to Guernsey I got...
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky by Benson Deng
Bonk by Mary Roach
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
70. Stiff by Mary Roach
As you might imagine from the title, Stiff is about what happens to human cadavers when they die, specifically those used in science or medical experiments. There are chapters on use of cadavers in medical training, automobile safety testing, firearms testing for ...
... The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - very good (Part of my 888 Challenge)
37. Stiff by Mary Roach - interesting and informative and actually quite funny
38. Atonement by Ian McEwan - a reread for me which is very unusual. I enjoyed it ...
My latest book review is listed at Stiff right here on LT. Great book, by the way!
Okay, my very happy review of Stiff is up and available for your perusal.
exlibrismcp, please read Corrie, the Lives She's Touched. I enjoy a biography and this one has no reviews yet.
For the next contestant, please pick from my TBR tags.
Thanks.
... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, another from my youth. Ghost Map, which I also read recently, is another winner.
ETA Stiff by Mary Roach, which I read last year and forgot to include on my list of favorites, though it was. Thanks to cgm707 at Msg. 61 for the reminder!
NF Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Aeneid by Virgil
H Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
... profile? I have it written down somewhere and I can't dig anything up right now.
LOVE Mary Roach books! Ever since Stiff I have been a fan. I truly wonder what criteria are used to create touchstones for authors; I see no consistency in what kind of writer gets a touchstone, so I'm ...
... Amusing and a short read.
retropelocin, welcome! I hope you have fun! Will you please read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers? That sounds intriguing!
Whoever chooses for me, please choose from my
... are great.
The Shane Maloney series about Murray Whelan is fantastic, the last one is called Something Fishy. Also Stiff, Nice Try, Sucked In. Victorian politics and crime, very funny.
And if you want another writer who captures the vernacular with perfection you mustn't miss Pet ...
209--I loved Stiff also. It was so interesting and unlike anything else I'd read before, and you have to appreciate anything so chock full of random facts you'll be able to repeat for the amusement of friends & family for at least the next couple weeks. I also read Spook, her follow-up about ...
I'm almost through Mary Roach's Stiff. Laugh out loud funny, but also respectful as she discusses the use of human cadavers for medical and other research.
... Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach. Most every review of this book I've seen states it's not as good as Stiff or Bonk. Even Mary Roach said it didn't do as well. I have to agree with that, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I just laugh and laugh at some of the ...
... So, etc.? I might even add that some other science books have become fairly popular, such as Mary Roach's Bonk, Stiff, and Spook. Do you see this as unusual (as do I) and if so, why do you think this is happening now? Any particular zeitgeist?
...
5) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (finished 11/6/08)
6) Switching Time by Richard Baer (finished 12/9/08)
7) Stiff by Mary Roach (finished 12/28/08)
8) Bonk by Mary Roach (finished 1/8/09)
Books from my to read list
1) Sophie by Guy Burt (finished 7/9/08)
2) Zombie Blond ...
... I checked it out from the library: Bonk. I probably would have read it anyway, regardless of ER, since I really enjoyed Stiff, but ER brought it to my attention.
... really say what I didn't like about it, I suppose the studies she examined weren't as interesting this time around as in Stiff.
After I finished that last night I started and finished Henry and the Clubhouse. I've been on a Beverly Cleary binge since hubby and I will be going to Portland ...
I've been on the wait list for Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex at the library ever since finishing up Stiff by the same author. I loved Stiff, as much as you can love a book about dead bodies, and have recommended it to others.
... to read the whole book and not just the title story.
After I finish this up, I will either read The Know-It-All, Stiff, When We Were Orphans or In Defense of Food. They are all from the library and due around the same time. I think I will probably start with The Know-It-All ...
600:
610- The Intern Blues by Robert Marion
611- Stiff by Mary Roach
612- Sperm Wars by Robin Baker
613- When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull up a Chair by Geneen Roth
615- The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood
616- Girl I ...
Death of a Soldier by Philip Prowse
Kill Me by Stephen White
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
... are the books I've read in May.
1.The Size of the World by Joan Silber
2.Home Girl by Judith Matloff
3.Stiff by Mary Roach
4.American Ground by William Langewiesche
5.Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan
6.So Long a Letter by Mariam Ba
7.Peter Pan ...
#109 - I read Stiff recently and thought it was great - I'll be ordering some of Mary Roach's other books soon. Stiff was pretty revolting in places, but hilarious too. I was impressed by the way Roach was so funny without being disrespectful about the sensitive subject.
This week still ...
I just finished Stiff, a history of cadavers by Mary Roach, and am about halfway through Blood and Vengeance, an account of the Bosnian War told through the eyes of a local family.
Then onto So Big by Edna Ferber.
... 6/8
8. Bathtub Books 4/8
9. New Genres 4/8
I am currently reading Stiff for my medicine category.
... i"ve finished As I Lay Dying for my Oprah's list category, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency for Other Countries, and Stiff for other nonfiction. I did not like Faulkner's style of writing. Detective Agency was just okay for me. But I loved, loved, loved Mary Roach's book about all the ...
... by Mary Roach. You know, there's a lot to be said about meeting the author before reading a book. I had read & loved Stiff, so when she came to town last week, I went. Sometimes her books seem irreverent or to have too many footnotes, but that's the way she talks, and it was delightful. ...
... Flagg
The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert
Over the weekend from a buy one get one half off table at Border's:
Stiff by Mary Roach
Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
The third addition to Science and Medicine:
Bonk
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, turns her eye and wit to the history of sex research. She examines the history, controversy, and amusing anecdotes that surround the study of sex, excitement, orgasm, and ...
I totally agree. I'm finding Stiff to be very clever and interesting, but it does seem weird to tell people that I am currently reading a book about dead bodies and then sharing what I am learning. Or starting a conversation with the phrase, "Guess what happens to your body if you're on a plane ...
Stiff: a little gruesome, but very funny, too. Clever and curious. I really liked it.
Thanks for the "gruesome" warning on Stiff, which is in my pile from the library.
Oh, interesting question...
I'm reading Bonk because I loved Stiff and I got a free ARC of it at the TLA convention last week, plus I wanted a good chuckle.
I'm also reading Tricky Business because I think Dave Barry is hilarious and, like I said, I want a good chuckle.
I'm reading Bal ...
I am currently reading Stiff and so far so good, but as previously mentioned in LT reviews a bit gruesome.
And I believe that The Lovely Bones will be a movie before the end of the year.
I forgot to post in March. I know I read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach because I posted a review. It was a really fun look at the science of dead people.
I'm new here and found this post. It sounds like such a great idea. I've never actually kept track of how many books I read a year, so this should be a fun challenge.
I also "borrowed" the idea of why I chose a book from another reader because I don't always have a lot to say about the books a I ...
>#16--have you ever read Stiff?
I'm like you. I went from Stiff to the cheesy Aliens: Steel Egg. Next up is Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels. I think constantly changing subject matter helps me to stick to one book at a time.
Atomic,
I just finished reading Stiff and loved it. I'd also heard some not so good things about Spook and was wary about picking it up. But your enthusiasm has sealed the deal. I'm going to order a copy right now!
I am the other member or the group who has read Stiff. It certainly qualifies as a Micro-History and in some ways a commodity history.
... of heaven : a story of violent faith by Jon Krakauer (2), Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2), Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach (2), Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal by Eric Schlosser (2).
How exciting - this is ...
... then there's everything else. I'll try most anything if it grabs my attention. I loved Word Freak. Right now I'm reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and I have The Devil's Teeth and The Devil in the White City on my ever growing TBR pile.
... Manila Envelope
Other: I also received the letter and am appreciative of the quick mailing - I just finished re-reading Stiff last night!
... the mushroom book were the only two I requested, and I must have been a better match for the 'shrooms. (Though I have both Stiff and Spook in my catalog.)
Whoo-hoo! I'm getting Bonk! I have Mary Roach's other books, so it makes sense. I'm rereading Stiff to refamiliarize myself with her style of writing. Really, it's not surprising she's moving on to sex since she makes reference to sex research in Stiff. I'm looking forward to this ...
I don't know about your book, but in the case of Bonk, I'm guessing that the publishers considered Stiff a good match; i.e., that they focused on the kind of book rather than the subject matter.
34. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach What happens to you when you donate your body to science?
This book appealed to the CSI-wannabe side of my personality; it was equal parts fascinating and disgusting. Like normal, the experiments described involving animals ...
... to the publishers that people might have an interest in pop-sci sex books in particular, so they just suggested things like Stiff.
#81 Stiff was the correct answer. It is a great book, but I suggest you don't read it and eat at the same time. ;)
Is it Stiff? by Mary Roach?
This week I read my third non-fiction title, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, which is a fascinating look at our bodies after death: the various methods in which cadavers have been used for research if donated to science, what exactly happens when we decompose or are ...
22. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
This book was absolutely fascinating! I'm definitely going to look out for Roach's other books, Spook and Bonk, which I feel should be called Boink, but whatever.
22/120 Books
3/20 Non-fiction Books
Stiff page count: 292 ...
I really enjoyed Stiff-not overly technical, not too gorey, and absolutly facinating. She also really makes the case for body donations.
... Private Life: From Pagan Rome To Byzantium
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
Food in History
R Medicine (General)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
UC Maintenance and transportation
The Ancient Greeks
UG Military engineering
Medieval Siege Warfare
Award Winners -- done
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Jan.
Astonishing Splashes of Colour Feb.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers April
Digging to America May
My Sister's Keeper May
March August
Year of Wonders September
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian No ...
The Crow by Alison Croggon
Vortex by Chris Bunch
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
Stiff by Mary Roach
Dark Apprentice by Kevin Anderson
Thanks for the Stiff suggestion. My daughter (who is not much of a reader, but actually enjoyed dissecting cadavers in college) highly recommended it also. I'll have to borrow it from her.
I was at turns gagging and giggling at Stiff. It's a fabulous book, agreed.
May I suggest Stiff, by Mary Roach, for your medicine catagory? It's about cadavers-- and yes, I know this sounds horrid, but it's humorous (trust me, you just have to take that on faith and read her!-- you can go over to amazon or look at the tags here on LT to see the humor part). It's ...
5. Medicine
-Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
-Stiff (read 5/08)
-The Spirit of the Place
-Monique and the Mango Rains (read 9/08)
-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (read 2/08)
-Year of Wonders:A Novel of the Plague
-Civil War Hospital Sketches (read 6/08)
-Mir ...
... Hirsi Ali
6. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
7. Into the Wild by John Krakauer
8. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Edit: #8 was previously Banker to the Poor.
#5 was previously Running with Scissors
... Stand by Stephen King
5. The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
For non-fiction which I don't read a lot of it's Stiff by Mary Roach
Other books that didn't make the top five are:
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Novecento by Alessandro Baricco
American Psycho by ...
... and Devil in the White City. A couple of other really good ones which came *that* close to being on that list are Stiff, Caesar, Life of a Colossus, and The Civil War by Caesar.
All the nonfiction I read this year were recommended by LTers, for which suggestions I am grateful ...
... Murphy
2. Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
3. In Arabian Nights, Tahir Shah
4. Dream Lucky, Roxanne Orgill
5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
6. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
8. Three Signs of a Miserable J ...
... Night-Time by Mark Haddon
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
NONFICTION:
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes
... Childhood
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The River of Doubt
Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers
Unbowed
Wizard of the Crow - novel
and would really like to read a few others in the future (this is just a sample)
The ...
... 2 hours into River of Doubt
Guess to a large part I'm in exploration/travel mode.
We had our book club meeting on Stiff, and the others liked it as well.
I recently had one such experience: Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers related the story of Burke and Hare, who ran a cheap motel or something that was frequented by drunkards. Cadavers for medical students were in high demand, and so to skim a bit off the top, they smothered a few ...
... to recognize the obscure story about Burke and Hare, the smotherers/cadaver stealers, which was told in greater depth in Stiff.
... did you like A short history of tractors in ukrainian? that title alone makes it appetizing!
For myself, I've finished Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers and found myself still thinking about different parts of it - particularly organ donation and use of cadavers for training ...
... right.
Finished Dark Side of the Moon by Kenyon - very enjoyable
Scarfed down A Lick of Frost by Hamilton
LOVED Stiff - one of the best books I've read this year. Giggled and gagged through it.
I am reading Stiff by Roach. It is disgusting... and very funny.
... red dye...? i'm also interested in a book on the history of calenders. {smiles}
and i did love reading Mary Roach's Stiff - hilarity, though i can also see how some might find it too glib.
i haven't read the Basque History of the World yet, but it's on my TBR shelf, too. LynnB, thanks ...
... types of books. I, too, must confess to being somewhat limited in my reading so far, but I really do like the idea.
Stiff is the only book I can recall off the top of my head and I must admit, it wasn't actually my favorite. it was good, but there's something about Roach's writing style ...
... not be that bad
129 Origin and Destiny of Individual Souls - Spooked: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach - Stiff, her other book, was pretty entertaining, I imagine this will be as well
133 Parapsychology and Occultism - Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scienti ...
Finally finished with Team of Rivals and will be starting Stiff
... English: facing off in early America lined up and ready to go. Now that I'm done with Goodwin's book, I'll be picking up Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers. It's been waiting for me to get to it for a few weeks now... And I also want to get to The know-it-all this month as well.
... - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
611 Human anatomy, cytology, histology - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
615 Pharmacology and therapeutics - The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood
...
... Manners and customs (General) A History Of Private Life: From Pagan Rome To Byzantium, Volume 1
R Medicine (General) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
UC Maintenance and transportation The Ancient Greeks
UG - Military engineering Medieval Siege Warfare
... ingway
Team of Rivals by Goodwin
Caesar, Life of a Colossus by Goldsworthy
A couple of others that I enjoyed were:
Stiff by Roach
Justinian's Flea by Rosen
I'm now reading one about Londons cholera outbreak in the mid-1800s. I think the title is Ghost Map. Yes, it is, by Stev ...
I finished The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan) and Stiff:The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach) this weekend, so I'm on to two new books.
1. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai) -- fiction -- I've read mixed reviews of this book here on LT, but I have high ...
... 451
31. The Book of Lost Things
32. Confessions of Max Tivoli
33. Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir
34. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
35. Dark Sister by Graham Joyce
36. Ella Minnow Pea
37. The Lovely Bones
38. The Bone Lady
39. Goodnight Nobody ...
I have dropped everything to read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. The topic is disgusting, the writing satirical and fun, and I can't seem to put it down!
Before getting wrapped into Stiff, I was reading The Omnivore's Dilemma - only about 50 pages til the ...
>34: ellevee
I just finished Stiff as well. I agree it wasn't enthralling, but it was fascinating. I couldn't say that I really liked it, but I learned so much.
I also finished Lonesome Dove and am in the last few pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I fell hard for 'Brooklyn.' It's ...
... my love for the author - although I will admit I keep hearing it in my head as his voice. Because I'm crazy.
Finished Stiff today, which was pretty good. Didn't love it though. More interesting than anything else.
... and still wildly enjoying it) my audible credits were available again, so I've got Under the Banner of Heaven, Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers and The Know-It-All.
While listening in the lab, I realized that one of the Team of Rivals discs was too messed up to ...
I've recently come across (but haven't yet read) two books about death - Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers and Necropolis: London and its dead. I presume there must be zillions out there. Any good ones? Any humorous one out there? Non-fiction, fiction, whatever...
(edited to fix ...
... Feast by Hemingway.
Two others that came close: The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay (fiction) and Stiff by Mary Roach (non-fiction).
*Edited to add A Moveable Feast.*
... ell
5. Moveable Feast by Hemingway
Honorable mentions go to:
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Stiff by Mary Roach - the only non-fiction on the list
Winter House by Carol O'Connell
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
(Anyone else notice how the ...
Just finished The Long Goodbye and have just started Stiff. I'm stuck at home waiting for the exterminator, so I have plenty of reading time.
I liked Remember Me better because, while a lot of the information was the same, it wasn't as scientific as Stiff. Making it a little easier to read & digest. I know Stiff is incredibly popular, but I did enjoy the other one better.
81. Stiff, the curius lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach. 4-1/2 stars. Who would imagine that what happens to our bodies after death could be so hysterically funny? I swear I chortled and snorted and laughed out loud all through the book. Not to mention it was fascinating. And ...
Hi, charlotteg ~ How funny, I just finished reading Stiff last night and loved it! If Remember Me is even better, well, I'm going to be looking for it to read!
Right after I finished Stiff, I started reading Justinian's Flea. I don't know too much about that period of time, and it's ...
I just finished reading Stiff today. It was good, but I didn't like it as much as I liked Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death by Lisa Cullen
Stiff is really enjoyable and actually funny, which surprised me, given its rather grim-seeming subject matter.
Did anyone read her follow-up Spook? I heard it was not as good as Stiff.
>24, Essa, what did you think about Islam Under Siege and Qur'an and Woman? I have been ...
... 5 years after the Reign of Terror ended. Also still reading (slowly) the following non-fiction: No Plot? No Problem!, Stiff, and What Type Am I? Just started Find Me, the latest (and I hope not the last) Mallory mystery by Carol O'Connell on audiobook, and am very much enjoying it!
#17 Yes, I did mean Stiff. I was wondering why the title wouldn't load. Doh!
I am finding it freakish how much I'm enjoying the book. As to what she'll write next if it's a series ~ the possibilities boggle the mind (but I can't wait to find out).
Edited to correct misspelled word.
Storeetllr--do you mean Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers ? I've read that--very compelling in its own sort of freakish way. I enjoyed it much more than I enjoyed her next book, Spook, although I am actually much more interested in Spook's subject matter. So she's done a book on ...
... mystery set in Paris during the time just a few years after the Reign of Terror and which is really good. Also started Stiff, the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which I am enjoying and finding surprisingly humorous, and another non-fiction book about Myers-Briggs types, the title of which ...
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
I am a bit behind in this - finished up Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (really good book and an excellent reader) over a week ago, then did His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (fun historical fantasy - think a dragon aerial corps in the time of Napoleon).
Am now working on C ...
I live a block away from an amazing bookstore. I'm dying. With books.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - the show iws amazing.
Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers
... highway" moments) yesterday. Includes a short interview with Janet Evanovich at the end of the last disk.
Started Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers this a.m. Love the reader's take on narration. Thank goodness I am on the road tomorrow - this is going to be a good one.
... Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Talk about complete opposites!
Am also listening to The Sociopath Next Door and Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers which are narrated by the same person so it a bit weird to go back and forth.
>5 Let me know how it (Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers) goes - it is one of six audios I just bought but I opted to start with Lean Mean Thirteen (Janet Evanovich) first.
... day, but was a little worried about that. Some of his stuff makes my stomach churn.
>122 Bookmarque
I'm also reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers right now. It's my "on-the-go" book, so I've only been reading a chapter or so every now and then, when I'm stuck somewhere ...
Stiff : The curious life of cadavers which is an audible.com download. Nicely narrated with personality and sensitivity and a sense of wonder in the voice.
Finished listening to Drop City and started Stiff: The Curious Life of Cadavers by Mary Roach which I'm finding hilarious and fascinating.
T.C. Boyle is becoming one of my new favorite authors and think that Talk, Talk might be next.
... for the comments. Maybe I'm not in the right mood for Dunces, something isn't clicking.
Other than that I'm reading Stiff:the curious lives of human cadavers and Under the Duvet.
I started Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers yesterday, who knew dead bodies could be so funny.
...
My gender workbook : how to become a real man, a real woman, the real you, or something else entirely
June 10 -
Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Impostors in the Temple
Sixteen Minutes from Home: The Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy
The Rough guide to Romania
The C ...
I pick up the following from the library today.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Audiobook - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulker
I'll be finishing Heart-Shaped Box soon and starting on Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. I'm not sure I'm going to like it, but I'll give it a shot. I'm also listening to The Turn of the Screw.
I'd like to begin Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson this week. ...
10. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
I really enjoyed this book! Like a lot of people, I have a fascination with what happens after death and this book humourously and tactfully describes what may happen to a body after death. Really interesting stuff, and far ...
Likewise Stiff by Mary Roach | How Should We Then Live? by Francis A. Schaeffer (I have read and owned the latter, but don't currently have a copy).
... a copy of The Quest for Corvo and am going to start it this week as well as Round Robin by Jennifer Chiaverini, and Stiff by Mary Roach. Should be an interesting week!
Welcome, bemidjian! Oh, please let us know how you are enjoying Spook, when you get the chance. I really enjoyed Stiff.
Stiff by Mary Roach unyields On the Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche. Presumably someone's library has the most unDoppelgängers. 0_o
So as i browse through stiff I am moved to ask what Non fiction makes you laugh I suspect Travel such as McCarthy's Bar or round ireland with a fridge will get the votes but I suspect you will want to tell me different.
Simon
... way Margaret Mitchell writes dialogue for the African Americans in her novel. Wowee.
Next up on my list, I got the book Stiff from the library to read, and I've got to reread Einstein's Dreams for my first ongoing book club that I'm running in just 3 weeks. Thank God it's a small (and ...
I found Stiff hilarious. Thought Guns, Germs and Steel would be a little better than it was -- so dry.
My favorite medicine book is Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande. He's a wonderful writer, and captures the uncertainties inherent in medicine ...
... Gregory, Steve Miller ****
Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer, Julian Brown ****
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach ****
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, P.J. O'Rourke ***
Amer ...
... (and on the owners of the small companies). It also contains moments of rhapsodization that borders on candy erotica.
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach - just what does happen to bodies donated to science....
Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murde ...
... from talking to me. Camille Paglia's Vamps and Tramps is a bane against talkative elderly folks. Mary Roach's Stiff wards off most everyone else.
I *loved* Stiff and still flash often to little creepy facts or images from it. Another bio book that has stayed with me for years is Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer. It turned my worldview upside-down and turned me into a diehard Zimmer fan.
I'm reading A Natural History of Sex by Adrian Fors ...
anyone else enjoy Stiff by Mary Roach as much as I did? fascinating & creepy!
or Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond?
what other biology or medicine related books have you enjoyed?
... could be so entertaining and enlightening. I would highly recommend Devil in the White City. I also enjoyed Spook and Stiff.
I actually get the joy of running a non-fiction book club at my library so we read a diverse set of books.
Stiff by Mary Roach-- has to be the funniest non-fiction book I've read in a long time. I mean, I liked Al Franken's book last year (The Truth? was that it), but that's so political.
Stiff enriched my life in so many ways, not the least of which was the experience of sitting in a coffeeshop ...
... Nothing like a lazy Saturday morning to read about landfills and methane. Actually very wittily-written. Reminded me of Stiff by Mary Roach. But its a fascinating book. Not dry at all. I mean, where does it all go-- our trash? Which is such a huge part of our lives?
I keep trying to make everyone read Stiff. It was one of the first nonfiction I got into, also. Roach wrote another one recently called Spook. It wasn't nearly as interesting, but still pretty good.
... you. Sugar : the grass that changed the world / by Sanjida O'Connell
everyone - recommended by a gorgeous friend was Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / by Mary Roach I must pass on the recommendation to anyone that will listen. It's the book that got me into non-fiction; ...
Atomicmutant: How well does Spook stand up to Mary Roach's previous book Stiff? While I was really taken with Stiff, the initial reviews for Spook made me hesitant about buying a copy.
I second your review of Doubt: A History, with the added bargain-hunter's bonus of getting it for ...
... book I've read in the past year was Doubt: A History. That was absolutely wonderful. I also enjoyed Mary Roaches' Stiff and Spook, both of which are well researched and hilariously funny, something that is often sorely lacking in skeptical literature.
