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| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Customer Ratings:  360 comments
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (pounds): 0.7
Dimensions (inch): 8.2 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0393324826
Dewey Decimal Number: 611
EAN: 9780393324822
Publication Date: May 2004
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Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued 8vo-over 7 3/4"'"-9 3/4"'" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners creased/ several page tips creased.
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 More than you knew you wanted to know April 20, 2003
This book is both funny and fascinating. As someone who works in the medical field and has been at cadaver labs, I am maybe not as squeamish as other people. But even those people who are will find the stories of head-transplant studies and accident reconstruction more interesting than "gross".
Rice Krispies???? April 15, 2003
9 out of 9 found this comment useful.
You know, I think she had me when she said in a footnote that while she agreed with organ & tissue donation, she preferred not to spend her hereafter as someone's underpants. I laughed out loud and kept on laughing. Not to give anything away, but the whole Rice Krispies & chicken soup thing out of chapter 3 was a scream. I did not know non-fiction could be so entertaining. It's not often that a book inspires me to read aloud to my roommate (who probably wishes I wouldn't), but this one did. I can't give it enough praise. Way to go Mary!!
I am not soon going to forget the opening paragraph April 10, 2003
6 out of 7 found this comment useful.
in which the author walks into a room with forty students, each of whom has a human head on the desk in front of them. if you aren't dead already, you might die laughing when you read this book. and at the same time it is tender, and shows us how really useful you can be after you die, if only as a way to test the windshield of a car going eighty miles an hour
 stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers April 7, 2003
4 out of 6 found this comment useful.
this book was a fun, witty look at the human cadaver. I loved the way Mary Roach discribed things in her quirky way, yet she was very respectful in the fact that she was talking about someones family members. Death was never so funny and informative!!!
Smart, Funny, Fearless April 3, 2003
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I thought this book might be too morbid or gross for my fairly delicate sensibilities. It is neither. Roach is funny but never at the expense of her subjects or topic. This is a smart ride through a world that we fear to look at. She proves there is no subject so grave that it can't be disarmed with a little humor.
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