Mary Roach: Spook

[jj]

Just got out of a talk she gave here.

Has anyone read the book? She seemed to have a moderately skeptical view of how things work, but ended by saying that 'she still had an open mind, there might be something there'.

I wasn't aware of her until the talk announcement showed up here.

Anybody know anything more? I really didn't get a good take, other than that she was rather dismissive of at least most of the experiences that were reputed to be "life after death", and chuckled when somebody asked her how she would make "afterlife testable".

 

[eri]

I haven't heard her talk (or read Spook) but I did enjoy her book Stiff. I thought she did a good job investigating the topics (various topics about death), and I was often amused by her frankness and curiousity.

Was she a good speaker?

 

[jj]

Was she a good speaker?

Not particularly, it could have been that she was tired or nervous. She had lots of material, but was somewhat hesitant in delivery.