MobileRead March 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

... Many of his recent works are almost direct attacks on the anti-evolutionists and although I agree with him, it does get a bit tiring.

Perhaps; but someone's got to do it, and it's good that someone with Dawkin's knowledge of the subject and his immense writing and speaking skills has decided to step up to the plate.

[CharlieBird]

Originally Posted by MelC

Okay, you have piqued my curiosity. Why not Stiff? (And yes I have been running around cheerleading for it but the truth is I have already read it, didn't vote for it and am kind of hoping for something I haven't read to win so I have no real self-interest here in promoting it).

Mel

Well, from the quoted opening lines in PilotBob's introductory description it does sound pretty funny, but then (per Zipr's post today) "fresh severed head sitting in roasting pans..."

Not squeamish about death, love satire about it, but...well, put it this way, I could never be a nurse or doctor. Never got past gagging through two diapering periods and still gag cleaning up after puppies.
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[MelC]

You might want to check out these two sets of excerpts. They are pretty representative of the book as a whole (one of them includes the roasting pan reference so you can get the whole context).

http://www.maryroach.net/stiffExcerpts.html

http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/i...ok_number=1230

This should give you a better idea if the book is for you.

Mel

[lene1949]

Originally Posted by MelC

You might want to check out these two sets of excerpts. They are pretty representative of the book as a whole (one of them includes the roasting pan reference so you can get the whole context).

http://www.maryroach.net/stiffExcerpts.html

http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/i...ok_number=1230

This should give you a better idea if the book is for you.

Mel

The more I read about it, the more I want to read the book... So, it'll be my book for the month regardless of which book wins...

Our body is just a 'shell' for lack of a better word, and I'm interested in knowing, what will happen to my 'shell' after I no longer need it..

I have 'prepared' quite a few dead bodies, as in laid them out for their families (which means washing and redressing them, change sheets etc. - make sure their teeth are in properly...).. Even though they were dead, I still talked them through the procedure - just so used to it...

But... I never knew what happened after that...

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by lene1949

The more I read about it, the more I want to read the book... So, it'll be my book for the month regardless of which book wins...

Our body is just a 'shell' for lack of a better word, and I'm interested in knowing, what will happen to my 'shell' after I no longer need it..

I have 'prepared' quite a few dead bodies, as in laid them out for their families (which means washing and redressing them, change sheets etc. - make sure their teeth are in properly...).. Even though they were dead, I still talked them through the procedure - just so used to it...

But... I never knew what happened after that...

As a medic in the army, I had to do the initial prep on a few bodies. On a cardiac ward in Hawaii once, after sticking stuffing into every orifice of a recently deceased gentleman, tying up one other potentially leaky appendage, and tying up his hands and feet, I slapped him on the thigh and asked if everything met with his approval. The SOB belched loudly! Geeze! It was a rhetorical question! I really wasn't expecting a reply!

[Vector]

You hear dead people.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841), "Self-Reliance."

That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Or not.

I'm not very consistent, you know!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Perhaps; but someone's got to do it, and it's good that someone with Dawkin's knowledge of the subject and his immense writing and speaking skills has decided to step up to the plate.

I agree completely in that respect!

[lene1949]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

As a medic in the army, I had to do the initial prep on a few bodies. On a cardiac ward in Hawaii once, after sticking stuffing into every orifice of a recently deceased gentleman, tying up one other potentially leaky appendage, and tying up his hands and feet, I slapped him on the thigh and asked if everything met with his approval. The SOB belched loudly! Geeze! It was a rhetorical question! I really wasn't expecting a reply!

[lene1949]

When is the deadline for this poll?

Stiff is being threatened...

[pilotbob]

It's a tight race of two so far. We'll see what the weekend brings.

BOb

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by lene1949

When is the deadline for this poll?

Stiff is being threatened...

Um... look at the my image capture of the poll:

BOb

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Vector

You hear dead people.

Maybe I could be the next John Edward! I could call my shtick Belching Over with WT. I could see it all now. "Are you the late husband of the woman standing beside me? Belch twice for 'yes', once for 'no'."

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by lene1949

When is the deadline for this poll?

Stiff is being threatened...

Is that a pun?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Maybe I could be the next John Edward! I could call my shtick Belching Over with WT. I could see it all now. "Are you the late husband of the woman standing beside me? Belch twice for 'yes', once for 'no'."

OMG! Go for it!

Karma Worthy!