So many interesting historical anecdotes about the space program and lots of great stories about the science that goes into space readiness...so why did this feel like such a slog to read?
My best guess is that the author is the type of person who can't simply let a good story stand on its own. Like Jay Leno, she has to hammer home a point with with "jokes" -- here it's usually in the form of footnotes and there must be 150+ of them, sometimes comprising more space than the non-footnote text on a page. These humorous asides are generally either too obvious to bother saying or too tame to be shockingly raunchy -- so they're more like the jokes speakers and preachers make that get smiles and light chuckles because that's what's expected.
Good information marred by the author's love affair with her own voice. I don't remember being annoyed with her while reading Stiff though...I wonder if her writing style's changed as her fame is grown or if I was simply so interested in the subject of cadaver science that nothing could get in the way of my interest.
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