Rating:  Summary: Mental ... Review: I enjoyed this book, having first "subscribed" to the online version. I also appreciate the way the "lessons" were presented, and it does provide some new ways of looking at age-old problems. But I can't imagine why anyone would give it five stars. It is far from an epiphany, or a guiding light to help me live my life. It does what it purports to do...give people something to think about...but there is no Pultizer forthcoming for this piece of work, and there is much more debris than God presented here. I give it three stars because I often engage in and enjoy this kind of philosophical doggerel. If you don't, don't buy it.
Rating:  Summary: mind mush Review: I was very eager to read this book. I love books that challenge me, books that question and make us think and re-think our relationships with God, the universe and our fellow man. This is not that book. It is all just fancy footwork pretending to be insightful and important. You want to be challanged? Skip this book and read...well, just about anything else! (Note to Mr. Adams: I don't think my age is a factor here. I am only 43.)
Rating:  Summary: Modern philosophy and entertaining to boot! Review: I ordered this when it was only available as an e-book, and have to say it's wonderfully thought provoking, as well as being humorous and entertaining. The story is not in the one two punch style of Dilbert humor, but Scott Adams' ironic humor is there mixed with the philosophy. A great read that definitely leaves you thinking!
Rating:  Summary: Incredible Incredible Book Review: If you're familiar with Dilbert, you will know how Scott Adams will often make his characters say little things that will make you sit back and think. In God's Debris, Adams lays out hundreds of thoughts on religion, god, probability, willpower, human fate, and other questions we as humans hold. The book approaches the idea of god in a way that has never been approached before, at least no way that I've heard. The book is absolutely incredible, and you cannot take it all in in only one reading. So many thoughts are displayed that it's almost overwhelming at times. It's like your discovering new secrets of life. This book also gives a wonderful view on religion, especially at a time we need it most. I am not a very religious person, but as this book points out: No one is right or wrong about religion. We're all just like curious bees looking through a stained glass window. My two favorite chapters, Curious Bees and Holy Lands, analyze our actions we take on with religion and war in a way that, once again, only Scott Adams could pull off. I give this book a 5 out of 5. It is incredible.
Rating:  Summary: WOW! Review: This book was absolutely wonderful- perhaps one of the best I've ever read. I read it in 1.5 hours and was up another hour just thinking about the ideas presented by the older, wiser character. I have already loaned the book to my roommate and have someone else in line for it. If you have an hour or so, and you are not afraid to think outside your current belief system for a little bit, this is an awesome book!
Rating:  Summary: Excellent Review: A great book that challenges many main stream beliefs. This is a deeper book than the others Adams has written so be prepared! If you like this book, you may also like Regan's The Evolution of a Warrior. This is new age type of book with a lot of humor and a different point of view that will get you thinking about who you are and how you can get what you want out of life.
Rating:  Summary: This is a fantastic book! Review: Stunning. Simply stunning. That's really the only way to describe this uttterly flawless and marvelous work. I just finished reading God's Debris, and already I am seeing the world through different eyes. The ideas in this book cannot be forgotten, and they cannot be "unlearned." They will stick with you until the day you die. You can fight it, or you can sumbit to the perfect logic contained within, and become a changed person. Thank you, Scott Adams, I will be sure to read this many times in the future.
Rating:  Summary: A very satisfying read. Review: Just a few words. It is a very good book, and finding some of the logical flaws will be my quest in reading it a second time. Perhaps the originality of this book is simply the manner in which Adams presents it. Sometimes old stuff newly framed is all it takes to lead to an epiphany. This book is epiphanious.
Rating:  Summary: Title is Half-Right Review: ... His Mr. Avatar begins an encounter with the narrator/delivery guy by asking run-of-the-mill skeptic's questions relating to the "big questions" of God, religion, the universe, physics, et al. He then forsakes this position throughout the rest of the story, offering "answers" that are even less logical and plausible than the ones he originally questions. The book's dust jacket says it was written to make "your brain spin around inside your head." That could definitely happen -- if your brain is small enough.
Rating:  Summary: Exercise your brain Review: God's Debris is one of those books that seems far too short. I read it in one sitting and wished for more. Whether or not you agree with Adams' conclusions, it will get your mind working in unexpected areas. Like the Tao Te Ching, Voltaire's Candide, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Richard Bach's Illusions, my mind will be returning to questions and ideas raised in God's Debris for the rest of my life. Following is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent Scott Adams immediately upon finishing the book: I just read God's Debris, and I was quite impressed. Clarity. Simple and profound. Many of the ideas correspond to my own thoughts, but you put a slightly different light on them or combined them in new ways, to my utter delight. It is very satisfying to compliment myself with the notion that a third party has confirmed that my ideas were grander than I had thought. I will bask in the illusion. However, while reading I couldn't help feeling that something even beyond these notions was creeping up behind me -- some way of seeing even further outside the human box, or perhaps further inside it. Perhaps even the idea that our notions are "delusions" is a purely human one -- resting on the shaky notion that there exists some absolute truth or fiction about things, when truth and falsehood are only a "useful delusion" that helps us to avoid being fooled in our daily lives. The idea (delusion) in the previous sentence helps me feel better about making practical use of my delusions, though I'm not sure why.
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