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A review by kblincoln
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr
4.0
Margee Kerr is a sociologist with a fascination with thrill/startle type fear. It's no surprise that in this book she seeks out various experiences such as hanging off the CNN tower or riding the tallest rollercoaster in Japan (the Takabisha at Fuji-Q) or spending a night in solitary confinement in an abandoned penitentiary.
Her account of these experiences are interesting, and Margee is definitely not shy about letting the reader know her physical and emotional reactions to these experiences.
But for me, the somewhat deep nature of her ruminations interrupting the flow of the actual account of what happens in each scary situation felt a tad self-indulgent. Until she gets to the part where she talks about her help in creation of an interactive haunt called "the Basement" in ScareHouse.
Then she expertly weaves together the main takeaway from each experience into ways she then creates the same kind of fears in her clients at the Basement.
There's also a big focus on safety and using fear as a way to create community among people and also attain a less-anxious state that pretty much only makes sense after her journey to the suicide forest as well as her insistence that the Basement be consensual and include safewords.
Interesting to read in a Discovery Channel reality show way...with a touch of emotional depth.
Her account of these experiences are interesting, and Margee is definitely not shy about letting the reader know her physical and emotional reactions to these experiences.
But for me, the somewhat deep nature of her ruminations interrupting the flow of the actual account of what happens in each scary situation felt a tad self-indulgent. Until she gets to the part where she talks about her help in creation of an interactive haunt called "the Basement" in ScareHouse.
Then she expertly weaves together the main takeaway from each experience into ways she then creates the same kind of fears in her clients at the Basement.
There's also a big focus on safety and using fear as a way to create community among people and also attain a less-anxious state that pretty much only makes sense after her journey to the suicide forest as well as her insistence that the Basement be consensual and include safewords.
Interesting to read in a Discovery Channel reality show way...with a touch of emotional depth.