Review: Our Bodies Are Out To Get Us!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
Once upon a time when I worked at B. Dalton Bookseller, I was tasked with assembling and filling the new CliffsNotes rack.  I somehow managed to pull a muscle in my back and I've hated those slender yellow & black books ever since.  The pain was bad enough, but more upsetting was looking into the full-length mirror.  I could SEE that my body was crooked; my right hip jutted out at an odd angle.  I told myself to straighten up and STAND RIGHT, but...I couldn't.  My body would JUST NOT LISTEN to what my brain was telling it.Almost as if it was done taking orders from me and was going to do whatever the hell it wanted from now on...Here we have five disturbing tales of bodies gone rogue, bodies misbehaving, bodies that no longer do what their owners think they should.I found them to be rather frightening.  Maybe even more so than other types of horror stories.  After all, you can always run away from a hungry zombie or a chainsaw-wielding maniac, but you can't flee your own stupid carcass.  You're stuck with it to the bitter end.These stories are gross, disgusting, unsettling and funny.  They also manage to give new meaning to the phrase "contemplating one's navel"...and NOT in a good way.