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lisa_emily
Jun 28, 2013 rated it liked it
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Stiff, hands down, is the most entertaining book I've read the summer of 2006. It covers the usual cadaver info: car crash tests done with cadavers, the University of Tennessee lab of decomposing cadavers (for forensic studies). But it also goes into the morbid history of head transplants- which includes stories of two-headed dogs and the attempts to revitalize guillotined victims' heads.

I was laughing out loud at Roach's antics in uncovering a newspaper story (rumor). She travels to China to tr ...more
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Maggie Downs
May 03, 2010 rated it it was amazing
One of my favorite books of all time. Utterly fascinating.
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Wendy E.
Feb 24, 2011 rated it really liked it
Wow! Who would have thought a book about cadavers could be so funny and so engaging. The chapters range from A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste to The Cadaver Who Joined the Army to Eat Me, Medicinal Cannibalism. I learned a great deal from reading this, some morbid facts and some fascinating. I will definitely read something else by Roach.
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Kim
Jun 30, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: started-didnt-finish
It's a good book- Mary Roach is highly entertaining and makes the science easy to follow. And it's not really that gross*, it's just...kinda gross. I just wasn't in the mood for it, I suppose.

*No worse than your average episode of CSI or Bones. ...more
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Maggie
May 04, 2008 rated it really liked it
Explore all the options for body donation right here in this lovely book by Mary Roach. Very entertaining (in the informational sort of way.)
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Jan 23, 2008 marked it as to-read
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Mar 19, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 25, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: nonfiction, creepy, sciency, adult-books-for-ya
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May 11, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jan 01, 2015 rated it liked it
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Molly
Jul 20, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: non-fiction, funny, grown-up, hard-issue
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