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corncobwebs's review
Reminded me of that Guy Playfair book about the Enfield poltergeist. Both books are essentially lists of various "paranormal" phenomena. In the Lindley Street house, many of the same things happened over and over again - kitchen table flipping over, refrigerator jumping around, TV falling on the floor. So it read kind of like, "The refrigerator levitated off the floor. The kitchen table flipped over. Then the baby picture flew off the wall. Then the refrigerator levitated again." Not super-exciting reading. Like I've said before, I enjoy reading these "true" ghost stories if they're decently written. There needs to be plot, tension, pacing - and this book didn't really have that.
But there was one line that kind of gave me pause. This is why I keep coming back to these kinds of stories:
Have we lost our sense of wonder that we need to conclude everything?
Touche. Even though I can't really believe in this particular story, it reminds me that there are other things in the world that we'll never understand. When you're not into organized religion and don't really believe in an afterlife, this idea is strangely comforting. Who knows what happens when we die? My suspicion is that it's nothingness, but if you can hold onto the belief that there are some things in the world that science can't explain, then you can hold onto the idea that maybe something else happens when we die.
But there was one line that kind of gave me pause. This is why I keep coming back to these kinds of stories:
Have we lost our sense of wonder that we need to conclude everything?
Touche. Even though I can't really believe in this particular story, it reminds me that there are other things in the world that we'll never understand. When you're not into organized religion and don't really believe in an afterlife, this idea is strangely comforting. Who knows what happens when we die? My suspicion is that it's nothingness, but if you can hold onto the belief that there are some things in the world that science can't explain, then you can hold onto the idea that maybe something else happens when we die.
missantarctica's review
4.0
I quite liked this book but if I ever end up in a mental institution, it will be because I went mad wondering what happened to Marcia Goodwin.
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