Reddit mentions of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

With the growing body of evidence that intestinal bacteria exhibit rather strong influence on the rest of our physiology, it may be time to rethink that (at least maybe post antibiotics). Have you read Gulp? Mary Roach spends the better part of a chapter discussing fecal transplants.

Try The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean. It's about the history of the elements on the periodic table -- how they were discovered, what they do, some interesting facts about them -- and his writing's really engaging. He's also written two other non-fiction books that are also excellent, but The Disappearing Spoon's the standout so far. His work's more akin to Mary Roach's work, which I also love; if you like her books, you'll probably like Kean's too.

Speaking of Roach, Gulp is also outstanding if you haven't read it yet.

Written by Mary Roach who is hilarious and has other great books! I recommend these in particular:

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

ps. The books I mentioned are kinda embarrassed to tell, but I do really like Pop science books!

My books are including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered, (Thai) The war that never won: History of fighting between humans and germs and more. Also I bought the complete series of The Famous Five, because I loved it since childhood and the artwork for this edition is really cute! It gives me the nostalgic feeling.

But as I told, I can just open some pages and leave it behind. Such a long journey to be an adult I guess. :/

I love these lists that everyone has compiled here, I've seen some amazing books that I've read and have yet to read. But since no one's mentioned this one, I'd to add a book that I think is really significant to AskWomen and the state of our society today:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It's about how a black woman died of cervical cancer in the 50s, then doctors took her cancer cells to experiment on without telling her family, and they're basically the only human cells to be replicated in the lab without dying so they've been used in all of medicine, including to develop vaccines like polio -- and yet her descendants live without healthcare. It's an amazingly well written, interesting, and exciting book.

Other than that I recommend Mary Roach as an author, she is very fun to read. My favorites are Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

> ... and totally not known even remotely enough in general.

I think this is one of the reasons I'm so open about recommending his work. He seems to have the ability to take topics that most people may not be exposed to and make them comprehensible. It's similar to the way I feel about Mary Roach in books like Stiff, Bonk, and Gulp.

Along with that, Bryson has some purely entertaining works like A Walk in the Woods, Notes From a Small Island, and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir that are just a joy to read. I guess I'll stop now because I'm starting to feel like shill.

Edit: spelling is hard.

Very good topic to bring up. There is a great book called Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, by Mary Roach. It's main focus is humans, but there is a whole chapter on pet food talking about this very topic. Specifically how "flavors" of dog food is totally for humans' sake.

I recommend this book. In fact everything Mary Roach writes is fantastic. She is factual, scientific, informative, and super funny. The book(s) are a riot.

I would love to read Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal! It seems like an informative and fun book. Thanks for the contest!

Gulp by Mary Roach is a really interesting book about the human digestive system.

Wine- I'd link wine to the book "Gulp" by Mary Roach, because she seems like the type to enjoy gulping down some wine.

Broom- I'll link brooms to a book called "Ashes", because you'll need a broom to clean up all the ashes after the apocalypse. :)

Hat- Look at those hats! They are fantastic!

Book- I have a whole wishlist of books, but that's too easy... so here's a movie about books instead, based on one of my favorite books, with the word "book" in the title. Triple word score!

Trunk- Savannah Smiles because she hides in the trunk of the criminals' car, and because one of the guys is named Boots... like the boot of a car.

Cape- the addition of a cape would take her from "weirdo" to "hero". Just stay away from jet engines.

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805063323/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QbzlDbZBYCQP6

Anything by Mary Roach, for example:
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393348741/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vdzlDb8KHDG5K