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 Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Microsoft Research 292K subscribers Subscribe Save 7. 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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