The Quick and the Dead

De: Cynric Temple-Camp

Narrado por: Mark Davis

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist

From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.

A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.

Fascinating

I enjoyed the pace, content, and descriptions. I learned quite a bit! Narrator was easy to listen to

New favorite

Dr Temple-Camp is one of my favorite authors in the medical writing category.
I look forward to more.
The reader was excellent.

Great book but very low volume recording

Very interesting and compassionate stories. Enjoyed as much as it's prequel and hope there are more to come.

Really, really interesting stories

This is a book about real people, who have faced the ends of their lives in sometimes tragic ways. I loved that the pathologist had enough compassion for their dignity, and curiousity-to make time to get to the bottom of every case.

Not for the Faint of Heart

Well, I don't think this is the kind of book you can call an "enjoyable" read, but it is fascinating! Naturally, I found some of the stories more interesting than others. But overall, this book kept me engaged. Definitely not for the faint of heart!
The performance was good, but the volume of the recording was very low. This meant that I could not listen to it if there was any background noise.