Amy's review
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Did you read Stiff by the same author? That was a great book. She wrote handled the most morbid topics with dignity and yes, humor.
I just started the section on what happens to a body when it falls out of an airplane when we were taking off. I don't recommend that.
oh great timing with the plane takeoff. ha.
i have been meaning to read stiff for ages and just keep forgetting about it when it's time to pick up a new book.
i'll put it here, on my to-read list.
I had the same airplane experience with Stiff! I kept reading and reading, and getting queasier and queasier, when it finally occurred to me that I could just. put. the. book. down.
Amy's review
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Amy's review
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spiritualismandwoowoo
an engaging and conversational tour through science's attempts to discover the seat of the soul and the existence of the hereafter. the author's premise is that she is not a science expert, but an informed skeptic who would be pleasantly surprised to discover hard evidence in favor of spirituality's scientific validity.
my friend became instantly offended by her tone, and likened her to a girl he knew in high school whose main objection to her physics class was that scientific authorities were socially awkward and/or laughable. the author is gossipy and personal, commenting that aristotle had a lisp, that this scientist was pruriently interested in his subjects, or that scientist was a henpecked husband. i quite enjoyed the gossip and didn't think it detracted at all from her observations. my friend, however, found that he was so offended by her cattiness that he couldn't give any credibility to anything she said.
so. i suppose perspective is everything.
my main objection to t...more
my friend became instantly offended by her tone, and likened her to a girl he knew in high school whose main objection to her physics class was that scientific authorities were socially awkward and/or laughable. the author is gossipy and personal, commenting that aristotle had a lisp, that this scientist was pruriently interested in his subjects, or that scientist was a henpecked husband. i quite enjoyed the gossip and didn't think it detracted at all from her observations. my friend, however, found that he was so offended by her cattiness that he couldn't give any credibility to anything she said.
so. i suppose perspective is everything.
my main objection to t...more
Did you read Stiff by the same author? That was a great book. She wrote handled the most morbid topics with dignity and yes, humor. I just started the section on what happens to a body when it falls out of an airplane when we were taking off. I don't recommend that.
oh great timing with the plane takeoff. ha.
i have been meaning to read stiff for ages and just keep forgetting about it when it's time to pick up a new book.
i'll put it here, on my to-read list.
I had the same airplane experience with Stiff! I kept reading and reading, and getting queasier and queasier, when it finally occurred to me that I could just. put. the. book. down.