On 2010-01-10 Aubrey Mishou, wrote: In Spook reporter Mary Roach delves into the world of paranormal research to bring to light modern science´s tenuous relationship with the afterlife. Like Stiff and Bonk, Roach´s writing is peppered with anecdotes and diverting travel stories, although her own voice is far more aggressive towards her subject than her other two publications (born from Roach´s own skepticism, no doubt). While Spook is both interesting and entertaining I believe Roach is at her best when she approaches more quantifiable subjects, leaving Spook at the bottom of the Roach-stack. . And summed up by saying Spook. Currently Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife has an overall rating of 6 over 10.
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W. W. Norton claimed The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that´s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?´ In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves´ heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of ´ectoplasm´ in a Cambridge University archive.
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