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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

4.07 AVERAGE

peregrineb's review

4.0

adventurous funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

wolfra's review against another edition

4.0

funny informative fast-paced

sbee88's review

4.5

funny informative fast-paced

mackachow's review

3.75

funny informative relaxing

readwithtabi's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

rmika's review

4.0

fast-paced

seahl's review against another edition

3.0

informative inspiring fast-paced

kewilks's review

5.0

dark funny informative inspiring

pixelthis's review

4.0

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A fun read about the creepy, gory, and gross side of science. The author, Erika Engelhaupt, is/was the science editor for National Geographic who wrote a blog about things like the kinds of flies that collect on corpses, why people are creeped out by clowns, all the different fluids that people excrete, and the worlds tiniest crime scenes. This book takes the content from those articles and more and structures it into a book with such memorable chapter titles as "That's Disgusting","Creepy Crawlies", and "Gross Anatomy" that's very easy to read and not too overtly gross (though I don't see myself taking up insect dining any time soon).

megomyeggo3's review

4.0

informative reflective medium-paced