Mary Roach appears to have experienced culture shock while in India, and I found her observations to be fascinating. He seeks out children who claim to have been reincarnated and gathers up as much information as he can from the child and the child’s family. Kurti S, Rawat, director of the International Centre for Survival. Mary Roach traveled through India with Dr. The very first chapter delves into reincarnation. Readers are free to take in whatever they find to be thought-provoking. She does not provide the reader with a definitive answer about what, exactly, one should expect from the afterlife. In Spook, Mary Roach asks plenty of interesting questions, and follows up by finding out what science had to say regarding the afterlife. It is the book for people who wonder what science can tell us about the soul, where it lives, and where it might go. This is not the book for people who have strong religious beliefs about the afterlife and who are looking for something that confirms what their religion tells them. Go into this book with an open mind and you will definitely learn something about human nature. In my opinion, the best way to read Spook is to set aside whatever religious ideas you may have about the afterlife. Spook – Science Tackles the Afterlife was written in 2005. After writing about what happens to the human body after the person dies, it seems appropriate to write a book about what happens to the human soul after the body dies. Hardcover (September 17th, 2005): $49.Mary Roach is the author of Stiff – the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism.Schindler - Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News Product Details Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining. Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club. David A Walton - Pittsburgh Union-Tribune Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide.
Roach’s writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark.ĭependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. The general reader’s ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science.
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