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I have heard great things about Mary Roach, but this book was just not for me. Her investigations into the attempt to determine if an “afterlife” exists are colored by her total skepticism, undermining the concept of the book. If you already know the answer, why write the book? This is compounded with a narrator whose tone is that of laughing eye roll most of the time, and a narrative that interrupts the flow of information to make a corny joke (much like John Oliver) The introduction was actual
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