Jafar's review
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Jafar's review
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Jafar's review
rating:
Stiff was so interesting that I decided to read another book by Roach. I had an immediate reservation as soon as I saw the subtitle of this book: Science Tackles the Afterlife. While Roach is a great and humorous writer and investigative journalist, she didn’t come across to me as a woman of science in Stiff. Indeed, she’s not. Somewhere in this book she lists sound, along with light and radio signals, as an example of electromagnetic waves. That made me really cringe. So, here you have a writer/journalist investigating claims of afterlife, not a scientist.
Which is fine by me. I didn’t need a scientific book on this subject. Afterlife, the way religions and myths and popular beliefs define it for us, is a settled question for me. But it’s still good to have someone like Roach go after claims of reincarnation and mediums and haunted houses and near-death experiences and ghost sightings and communicating with the dead – etc. Her great humor still shows...more
Which is fine by me. I didn’t need a scientific book on this subject. Afterlife, the way religions and myths and popular beliefs define it for us, is a settled question for me. But it’s still good to have someone like Roach go after claims of reincarnation and mediums and haunted houses and near-death experiences and ghost sightings and communicating with the dead – etc. Her great humor still shows...more
