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Mary Roach has already tackled sex and corpses, now she tackles the afterlife. Spook was actually pretty good in Roach's typical fun but scientific way.
Roach explores reincarnation, whether a soul exists (is it the big toe? or the sperm?), how much a soul weighs (surprisingly a lot of tests to determine this), ectoplasm, mediums, etc. She actually got to speak with Allison Du Bois, who is the basis of the TV series Medium.
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Roach explores reincarnation, whether a soul exists (is it the big toe? or the sperm?), how much a soul weighs (surprisingly a lot of tests to determine this), ectoplasm, mediums, etc. She actually got to speak with Allison Du Bois, who is the basis of the TV series Medium.
I still don't believe qu...read more
The thing I really enjoy about Mary Roach books is that they are a deeper look into topics from different aspects of the subject. From the proof of reincarnation, to the tangible evidence of a soul, to the education of mediums, the author opens up to all possibilities of the afterlife from an unbiased opinion.
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