Spook - by Mary Roach (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In an attempt to find out what happens when people die, the author of "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" 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 there is an afterlife.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide.--Janet Maslin "New York Times"<br><br>Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . <em>Spook</em> is enormous fun.--David A Walton "Pittsburgh Union-Tribune"<br><br>Reading <em>Spook</em> is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining.--Dorman T. Schindler "Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News"<br><br>Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in <em>Spook</em> she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club.--Vince Darcangelo "Boulder Weekly"<br><br>The general reader's ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science. . . . Roach's writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark.--Malcolm Jones "Newsweek"<br>
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