On 2009-12-22 egreetham, Massachusetts wrote: What a disappointing experience! While Deborah Blum has obviously done an incredible amount of research on the history of scientific investigation of the possibility of life after death, it is squandered in this jumbled disorganized narrative, for, as some have commented, Ms. Blum has no gift for telling a tale effectively. Even the title of the book is misleading: There is no stronger focus on William James than on several of the other researchers. When one considers the fascinating nature of psychical research and the tie with William James, it is really a pity that the book is so choppy and hard to follow. She makes a compelling subject boring.
I would not recommend this book unless a prospective reader, perhaps someone already somewhat familiar with the subject, could be happy with the occasional gem that may be discovered on the trek through it.
. And summed up by saying 2 1/2 stars. Currently Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Penguin Press HC, The claimed A Pulitzer Prize–winning author tells the amazing story of William James’s quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into ´unexplainable´ incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued— and what they found—raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.
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