Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

from NewsieQ

Gulp is a book 14-year-old boys would likely love, having to do with bodily secretions: saliva, mucous, feces, and flatus - what a grad-school friend called "body boo." I'm not certain how Gulp will go over with the non-fiction group at my public library, which averages quite a bit older than 14....

from bookworm12

I'm a fan of Roach's writing. She manages to take any subject and make fascinating and hilarious. The alimentary canal is no exception. Roach begins with the mouth and follows the path of food all the way through the process. The results is a book that is both absorbing and disgusting. I definite...

from howifeelaboutbooks

People have told me to read Mary Roach's Stiff so many times I can't count. I haven't gotten around to it for one reason or another, but when I saw Gulp at the library I snatched it up. I wasn't sure I was entirely interested in the "alimentary canal," but Roach's writing is very accessible and h...

from steve02476

Gleefully gross, funny, and lots of interesting stuff. There's science in here, but also a lot of science history.

from Carpe_Librum

I love getting my science on, and reading the cleverly named Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach recently enabled me to do just that. Mary Roach takes the reader through the entire digestive process, from smell, taste, saliva and what happens in the stomach to noxious flatus a...