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I am enjoying this book, but it has a great deal of French in it with no narrative translation, which is a bit of a struggle for me.

This is slow going. Skloot is a victim of her own internalised white privilege and egotism. Bored.

I'm trying to imagine Swift writing A Modest Proposal at the same time as people were happily downing medicines made out of human skulls. There seems to be a pretty fine line here between 'cannibalism' and, um, 'cannibalism'.

'Taking "a whole carcass with the bone, flesh, bowels (of one killed by a violent death)" cutting it into very small pieces and mashing it up until the whole pulverised mass is indistinguishable. It is then distilled, and is used in the manner of Irvine, to take disease away from a patient ... we can assume that it would also have been a valuable source of protein.'

Obviously somebody had to go there.

Early days. Premise is interesting, but I'm a little skeptical of his insistence that nearly all health problems are the result of bad lifestyle choices.

I haven't read this story since about '99. It is way cooler now that I'm old enough not to be struggling with the big words. xD

I am finding this book interesting enough to read through rather quickly.

I should feel more ashamed of myself for sitting here reading this. These. Whatever.