Roach skillfully manages the tricky art of setting for a work that tends to elicit strong and often irrational feelings.

She tours the history of scientific interest in the paranormal and supernatural. She talks to researches dealing with electromagnetic fields and ‘infrasound’.

Mary roach's writing style is very random, wandering, and discursive. Roach does not have some talent as a writer. Maybe stiff and bonk are really all roach had in her. The book is more anecdotal than anything else.

Mary roach attempts to look at a subject'scientifically', though how someone who has already decided that anything to do with the possibility of afterlife is false can look at it scientifically, i'm unsure. Roach reports on the research of vic tandy, ...  Read More

If ever a book deserved absolutely no praise, this is certainly one. The book reads like a very bad david sedaris knock off. As a researcher, this shows terribly bad form--you do not insult those who have been kind enough to help you write the book.

Spook is unquestioningly the too quickly researched and written book with the offensive and misrepresentative title. The only spooky thing in full 300+ pages is mary herself and perhaps her unsurpassable ability of authoring pages upon pages of oft-in...  Read More