Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Most of the book was... um... duh. ( )

Not as good as stiff. A little to "spiritual" but very interesting. Many world travels to see who is studying death and the soul. ( )

Spook was my first dive into Mary Roach's writing, and I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable one. The first chapter I found a bit on the difficult side to read as it was tedious to me, but the rest of the book flowed easily and amusingly through the strange topics of ghosts and the possible afterlife. A self-proclaimed skeptic, Roach managed to keep a fairly non-biased view about the manner and remain open-minded while still voicing her own disbelief in a manner that allowed the reader to make the choice for themselves as to how they felt about things.

I'd recommend the book to just about anyone and am looking forward to getting through her other publications. ( )

The audio version was difficult to handle. I found myself zoning and having to backtrack. Mary Roach is one of my favorite authors & the audio performance should not be a reflection on her research. I might have enjoyed this much more had I read the hard copy or if the narrator was someone different. ( )

This one is really hard for me because I like Mary Roach. The truth i I only read it as far as I did because I liked several of her other books a lot. This book didn't do it for me. I didn't like the way she attacked the subject. I didn't think it was funny, although I think it was trying to be in places. It seemed to have no clear direction on what kind of book it wanted to be. I stopped reading about 60% of the way through. Again if it hadn't been Roach I would have set this one down much earlier. She can write and there were some interesting parts but not enough to keep me going. ( )