This book should have been a blog post. The most interesting chapter on EMFs that I would have liked more information on, was coincidentally the shortest chapter. Sadly, the least interesting information was super drawn out.

Not as good as her others, and maybe that’s because I wasn’t as interested or fascinated by this topic.

I think this is one of the cases where the concept of a book seems more interesting than the book itself. There were cases where Roach stretched a single, only mildly interesting anecdote out for an entire chapter, when the point it made was weak at best. I really enjoyed “Stiff”, but this doesn’t come close.

Read this book for a good time. I read her first book during detention in high school. Found her a little obnoxious and self-deprecating at the beginning of this one--but who wouldn't be a little bit, if they were a non-scientist trying to write this book?

I laughed out loud probably eight times. Thought she would talk more about ghost sightings. The parts about mediums were the most interesting to me, especially the, ahem, various places they came up with to hide the "ectoplasm". It's disappointing that almost none of the scientific experiments she describes ended in favor of the paranormal, but it's a little comforting, too.