From Publishers Weekly
To the naked eye, the bowels may look dark, even inscrutable. But the universe of the intestine as shown to us by the Hubble Endoscope is in fact extravagantly colourful, full of drama and movement. Mostly peristalsis but hey. The author of this lush toilet read, Dan Lather, a doctor, author and collector of Japanese pornography, takes on us on a spell-binding tour of his own lower alimentary canal: through his own black hole, across ropes of bowl plaque cartileaged in beautiful horsehead shapes, the chewing gum nebulas and that bit of a nail file he accidentally swallowed back in ‘84.

Part memoir, part detective story and part scat porn, Lather conveys his lifetime love affair with the alimentary canal through breathless prose. Connoisseurs of this field will revel in a fascinating 64 page history of colonoscopes and a brief chapter on the short-lived 70s sci-fi TV show, The Colonoscopic Man.

No weirdos book collection is complete without at least one book devoted to these unprecedented and literally stomach-churning images. (Oct. 18)

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Our first clear view, 11 Oct 2007 By  Steve Anar (Northamptonshire, England) - See all my reviews    This isn’t just another book of beautiful photographs. Vive the Hubble and the wonders reflected through its glass. To think that just a few hundred years ago, we thought the bowels were just sausage-like corridors of shit. My only problem is that some of the details in the double-page photographs and posters in the book are hidden by the book’s stitching. But this is a very small complaint in the midst of such wonder. Was this review bewildering to you?  (Report this)

Up its own arse, 16 Oct 2007 By  Darren Silver (Northamptonshire, England) - See all my reviews    Who wants to look at hi-res pictures of an author’s digestive system for God’s sake? I had to wonder what Lather’s intended audience was. In their own enthusiasm for the subject, the author and publisher have lost perspective. This is essentially a ridiculous premise. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

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