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I don't know why this took me so long to get through. Roach is both hilarious and respectful and I know far more about gut flora than I knew was possible to know. She has a knack for making the weird fascinating. The only caveat is reading this while eating was difficult, so it wasn't my favorite lunch time read...
Fantastic! I love Mary Roach! If you were ever curious about anything you should check out her titles. Full of information, but written with humor for the every day person. I don't want to say too much though... I need to save it for my book group.
I wish there were more than 5 stars. Mary Roach is a great writer!!! I'd like to think about how my life may be different if I'd had a science teacher like Mary Roach. She is detailed, accurate and very, very funny!!!
As always with Mary Roach, I learned fascinating things that I hadn't realized I had always wanted to know right alongside fascinating things that I would kind of prefer never to know again, and somehow both kinds of facts were equally entertaining.
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This book gave me a whole new respect for my colon. AND it's very funny, with, predictably, the chapter on farts being being especially amusing.
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Yes, men and women eat meals. But they also ingest nutrients. They grind and sculpt them into a moistened bolus that is delivered, via a stadium wave of sequential contractions, into a self-kneading sack of hydrochloric acid and then dumped into a tubular leach field, where it is converted into the most powerful taboo in human history. Lunch is an opening act. ~ Mary Roach
Mary Roach is such a great, witty, informative writer, that I read this entire book about some of the grossest parts of the human body.
Once again, Mary Roach asks the questions most of us are afraid to ask and in some cases think. While not quite the same level as Stiff, it comes awfully close. At times squirm inducing, Gulp made me appreciate the mass of cells I call me even more. As always, Roach reveals how scientists are equal parts heroic, mavericks and delightfully crazy. Can't wait to see where she goes next.