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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

4.04 AVERAGE

ashleighk_allday's review against another edition

5.0

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

asterisk_books's review against another edition

3.0

dark funny informative medium-paced

devineirony18's review against another edition

3.0

challenging informative slow-paced

cotswoldmama's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny informative medium-paced

thehauntedfawn's review against another edition

4.25

funny informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Cannibalism

nat_harmon7's review against another edition

4.0

informative medium-paced

garbagecat's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

anneyconda's review against another edition

4.0

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This book was hilarious. The content was interesting but at times was a little graphic but her writing style is very tongue in cheek and comical.

adqmcs's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 42%

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100 pages about corpses could’ve held my attention, but 300 pages did not.

annsophia's review against another edition

3.25

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Stiff has been on my TBR for a while, and I’m glad I finally got to it. It was eye-opening in a way I didn’t expect. I’ve always been a big believer in organ donation, if I die and someone can use a part of me to live, that’s an easy yes.

Donating your body to science, though? That’s a whole other conversation. This book really highlights how little control you have over what “to science” actually means. It’s not glamorous, and parts of it are uncomfortable, but that’s kind of the point.

Nothing in the writing totally blew me away, but it definitely made me think more about what happens to the body after death. Worth the read for that alone.