Picked up at the BCinDC holiday party. I read another copy a while back and this is what I had to say then:

This is a tour of the entire digestive system, end to end, from cat food tasters to fecal transplants. It's told mostly with a sense of wonder, with the occasional bit of juvenile humor (because come on, really). The breadth of information is vast and most of the anecdotes are fascinating, but all in all I just could not get over the Ick Factor. As interesting or funny as the text was, I found I could not eat during any portion of this book. The mere mention of gastric juices was enough to put me off my breakfast. Still, it remains - as with all of Roach's books - an unexpectedly enthralling survey of a subject you likely never gave much though to before. I just didn't come away with the same desire to read more about any of the case studies presented because, you know, ick.

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