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finished reading Ghosts by Roger Clarke

Roger Clarke: Ghosts (2014, Penguin Books Ltd) 2 stars

"Is there anybody out there?" No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of …

I've not had a lot time for reading anything other than technical manuals recently, but I finally finished this one last night, and I still have very mixed feelings about it tbh.

It's just quite badly organized. Some things get repeated, some things get skipped over when they really need to be developed, sometimes the thread of a chapter is weirdly tenuous and disappointed, sometimes you ask yourself, "is this really the best quote you could find to support this position?"

I don't know how much of the blame belongs to the writer though, because this is all stuff that an editor should have picked up on. A shame, because this book could have been beat into far better shape imo.

The subject matter is very interesting though, and the legwork has clearly been put into researching it. My interest in the phenomenon of the C19 seance has certainly been piqued, and there are some good references here for further reading 👍