Look, I’m not a squeamish person, and the fact that this is a book about the human digestive system should serve as fair warning about the material, but even I found some of these essays too “icky” to read. I also have a very hard time reading about cruelty to animals, and there’s a lot of recounting of historical medical experiments here. All that’s to say that while I find Roach’s writing style incredibly entertaining, I had to skim over a lot of this. I know how popular she is, and this is the first book I’ve read by her, so I think I’ll give her a second chance with some different subject matter.