![]() ![]() Beyond pure enjoyment, Roach book also shows just how enmeshed certain sectors of the scientific community have become, in the past two centuries, in matters of belief. This book is, without question, a rollicking good read. The stranger it gets, the happier Roach seems to be. As with her other work, Spook is infused with Roach's sense of humor and her clear fascination with the bizarre. She writes of doctors who attached dying consumptives to giant scales. She brings us the story of the woman who could vomit large quantities of fabric on demand in the name of talking to the dead. To give a full picture of these efforts Roach's research takes her across cultures and continents. In particular, the book examines scientists' efforts to to offer measurable proof of the existence of the soul, and their attempts to understand what happens to immaterial parts of personhood after death. Whereas Stiff examined the ultimate fate of cadavers, Spook looks to the soul. ![]() In Spook Roach jumps from the physical to the metaphysical. Ever since I read Stiff, I've been waiting in anticipation for her next book. I think Mary Roach is a hilarious writer. ![]()
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