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Pros
It's a rare treat to find a writer who’s both talented and funny. The author sprinkles in just the right amount of humor to make the book very interesting. It is as entertaining as it is educational.
Mary roach is an accomplished author. The uncanny ability to present scientific knowledge in a humorous way, a roach trademark. Roach's book is well researched, and i found it to be entertaining.
Mary manages to make it all entertaining, even funny, instead of dry and boring. Mary has a delightful inquisitive mind and she is funny as heck!
Lying down keeps astronauts from fainting. Nasa’s recommended astronaut attribute list includes an ability to relate to others with sensitivity, regard, and empathy. Being an astronaut is so much harder.
Cons
"this one must have been written by an intern. Ms roach's writing style wears you out with repetition" at one point, she suggests that an astronaut who was * assaulted by another astronaut should have had more cross-cultural training to avoid sending ... Read More
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Quality
Definitely worth a read although not for the squeamish reader
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This book might have been titled something like bodily functions in weightlessness or something similar
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Though i know mary roach is an adult woman the humor throughout the book seems more like that of a 12 year old boy
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This is so much the case that if i ever had a chance to meet the author i would fully expect conversations to be peppered with fart jokes and juvenile references to sex
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Fortunately i am not beyond deriving some pleasure from middleschool potty humor on the written page especially when it applies to the awkward existence of humans and perhaps any terrestrial animal in space
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If you think you might enjoy stories of turds in space nasa fanny cams and what practical lessons fictional threedolphinsex might hold for human exploration of the cosmos then this book might be for you
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I started by expecting a rather dry treatise if us space exploration history
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I mean details you never thought you would even ask the question about
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The gravity of gravity…it is probably prosaic to say
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