I was really excited to get Spook, by Mary Roach because I so enjoyed Stiff. I giggled quite a few times during the first 50 pages and then put it down. For two days. Long enough for TW to pick it up and laugh non-stop through it. I picked it back up and I finished it but I didn’t find much to laugh about. And I didn’t find it all that interesting either.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have some burning desire to KNOW what happens after I die. I don’t particularly care. And I don’t particularly want the rest of the world to KNOW what happens either. I guess this is one surprise I’d rather keep as a surprise or something?
TW and I have spent some time pondering what Roach’s next subject will be…. hopefully it’s something better than the after-life.
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But wasn’t Stiff really about the afterlife as well. Just the afterlife of our bodies and not our spirits.
ha, but can you call that “afterlife”? Both about death, definitely.
Wasn’t the whole point of Stiff is that our bodies can have a “life” after death? That we do not cease to be useful? That we can still have purpose?