![]() ![]() It is only about 8 hours of narrative, but frankly some of it is pretty hard to listen to. Stiff took me about a month to get through. ![]() With both Bonk and Stiff, there were several times when I got bogged down in the research and studies, but the narrative and stories of the researchers (and how hard it is to do research in both areas) move the book along and give a place for the research to hang. In reality, I think that she structures the books very cleanly so that they feel like narratives or ethnography, but they actually have quite a bit of research involved. She seems to just wander through thoughts as they come to her, giving research in one area and then another until you get back to the original point. I purchased the book in the first place because I enjoyed Mary Roach’s previous book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a mostly gross and occasionally very interesting book. ![]()
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