
Spook
Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Narrated by:
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Bernadette Quigley
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By:
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Mary Roach
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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What? A Comedy?
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What made the experience of listening to Spook the most enjoyable?
I'm afraid this was not as good as stiff, but still quite informative.I believe the subject matter wasn't as interesting as one might think.
What did you like best about this story?
Mary Roach is excellentWho would you have cast as narrator instead of Bernadette Quigley?
The narrator who performed on stiff was excellent.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
NoSound quality was not very good.
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Hasn't aged well
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Not much rhere
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Awful narration
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great book, not great reader
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I'm still trying to decide...
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snarky narration
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Somewhat disappointing
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Would you try another book from Mary Roach and/or Bernadette Quigley?
Yes for Mary Roach, no for Bernadette QuigleyWhat did you like best about this story?
Classic Mary Roach, gonzo journalism with weird scientistsWould you be willing to try another one of Bernadette Quigley’s performances?
Never. Throughout the book she does horrible accents bordering on racist, she pauses in the wrong places or emphasizes the wrong words, and feels free to put her own spin on sentences. It would have been much better with a narrator reading in a neutral tone and her own voice.Good Mary Roach book, atrocious narration
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