I have never reccomended a book before I have finished it. Well, that has changed. I"m reading the book "Spook" by Mary Roach. It's hilarious, but so very interesting...I'm only putting it down to tell everyone to go buy it or check it out at the library.
I loved her first book "STIFF" about dead bodies. "SPOOK" is subtitled "Science Tackles the Afterlife". She says she is not making up her mind if there is or isn't an afterlife, still she rather sides with the skeptics. Chapeters on ectoplasm...and her comments about WHAT WERE PEOPLE THINKING ANYONE CAN TELL IT'S FAKE...have you rolling. You know you've thought it. I wasn't sure I was going to like the chapter about the University of Arizona lab, and our old nemesis Gary Schwartz. But she doesn't buy much of what he is selling. Her chapter is far more likely to convince people about the truth of what is happening than an outright attack.
She even goes to Medium school in the UK. She pretty much has the same feelings and experience that any of the skeptics here would have. Not a good time.
Not since Will Cuppy has someone used footnotes in such a delightful way.
My favorite footnote so far is about a man involved with photographing the human soul leaving the body of a person at death....his name was Dr.Snook. He invented the Snook tube.
"To thoes who find humor in this poor man's name, I have this to say: His full name was Homer Clyde Snook."
It's a good educational read that will make you laugh.
I loved her first book "STIFF" about dead bodies. "SPOOK" is subtitled "Science Tackles the Afterlife". She says she is not making up her mind if there is or isn't an afterlife, still she rather sides with the skeptics. Chapeters on ectoplasm...and her comments about WHAT WERE PEOPLE THINKING ANYONE CAN TELL IT'S FAKE...have you rolling. You know you've thought it. I wasn't sure I was going to like the chapter about the University of Arizona lab, and our old nemesis Gary Schwartz. But she doesn't buy much of what he is selling. Her chapter is far more likely to convince people about the truth of what is happening than an outright attack.
She even goes to Medium school in the UK. She pretty much has the same feelings and experience that any of the skeptics here would have. Not a good time.
Not since Will Cuppy has someone used footnotes in such a delightful way.
My favorite footnote so far is about a man involved with photographing the human soul leaving the body of a person at death....his name was Dr.Snook. He invented the Snook tube.
"To thoes who find humor in this poor man's name, I have this to say: His full name was Homer Clyde Snook."
It's a good educational read that will make you laugh.
Now I'm a sad panda.