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Failure to Finish 1: Bonk - Mary Roach

AUDIOBOOK read by Sandra Burr

After zoning out for the hundredth time, I finally decided to give up on Bonk about halfway through.  Years ago, I read Roach’s Stiff and found it very interesting, so I was excited to start another of her non-fiction research books.  Bonk is a look into how science has dealt with sex over the years.  While I found some of the items interesting, the monotony of both the text and the reader (who sounds sort of like she’s computer generated) couldn’t ultimately hold my attention.  Perhaps I would have had better luck with the actual book and the ability to skim a bit, but no such luck with the audiobook.  I have two other Roach audiobooks on the iPod, so I’m hoping this one is an anomaly and that the others are more to my liking. 

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