Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

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311 pages

Average rating: 7.57

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Anonymous
Dec 04, 2023
8/10 stars
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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JShrestha
Aug 25, 2023
8/10 stars
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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