Bragg, G., & O'Malley, K. (2011). How they croaked: The awful ends of the awfully famous. New York: Walker &.
I would have to say that a very disturbing account was King Tut's story. Maybe because it was the first chapter and I wasn't quite sure what to expect...Maybe? But everything that his remains were put through was a major invasion of privacy. The fact that people just kept opening his tomb and pretty much experimenting with it was just wrong. However the accounts, as gruesome and grotesque as some were, were all intersting! Another thing I truly enjoyed were the fun facts after each gruesome tale of how they "croaked."
This is too much to absorb. Disturbing to say the least, but as the introduction says it, "Who can tear their eyes from a train wreck?" I did have to take a few breaks, quite a few breaks actually, while reading it because it was too much to swallow. I felt like a woos actually. Yup! Definitely disturbing.
As I read most of it, my husband was sitting next to me. I kept putting the book down every so often, he'd just look at me and grin. One of the times he asked me, "What?" I said, "This is pretty disturbing." He laughed and responded, "What did you expect? It's a book about how people died." Well, he had a point.
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