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Summary: Amazing.
Review: ***from national review***
The intro functions almost as a warning label: The ideas expressed herein are "inappropriate for young minds"; Old people should likewise bow out; Those likely to be offended are invited to take a pass.
In God's Debris, Adams animates the well-worn genre of the Socratic dialogue with his musings on weighty issues: God, religion, community, free will, morality, the mind. The upshot is, among other things, a modern Gnostic fantasy and a skeptical argument for belief. The two players are an anonymous UPS driver stand-in for Adams and a mysterious ancient "man" named Avatar who "knows literally everything" and who, by explanation, upends most of the deliveryman's assumptions.
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Summary: Thought experiment, indeed
Review: I enjoyed this book and the fact that it made me think hard about established beliefs. My concern when I first read it was that it would offend many religious individuals. I think that no one should take this as an absolute, but simply to open their minds to the possibilities, realizing that nothing is ever completely how it seems nor might many long-held beliefs 100% accurate.This is thought provoking, insightful, and just plain fun to read. The debates that go on in this text are priceless.
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Summary: Do Skeptics believe in Skepticism?
Review: Many apparent paradoxes are explored, and many common contradictions revealed and sometimes ridiculed. I haven't gained this much enlightenment per hour since reading Hofstadter. God's Debris contains a few intriguing insights, but more importantly, it seeks to dispel that which prevents readers from granting insight to themselves. The most compelling feature of the book was its ability to resonate with some deeply personal dissatisfaction with the natures of belief, truth, communication, and human nature as they are normally explained. It turns out that the question of whether truth can exist without belief is not easily answered, nor should it be. Do not skip the introduction. Allow enough time to read without interruption. And if you are not deeply rattled after four chapters, seek professional help immediately.
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Summary: This is the single best book I have ever read!
Review: It was delivered to me at 10:00 this morning at work - since then I haven't done anything but read. I couldn't even put it down long enough to go to lunch! The insights and ideas presented by the author make you question yourself, your life, and what you think is reality. I cannot say enough for this book.. get it... I'm glad I did.
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Summary: My new favorite book
Review: God's debris is not an ordinary book. It is also not a book for everyone. Some people love it, some people don't like it at all. There is not much grey area in between. God's debris states in the introduction that it will probably not be enjoyed by someone over the age of 55(mentally). Reason being, it discusses controversial and alternate ways of thinking. Somebody who is quite stuck in their ways and not open to even thinking about alternate(if unreasonable) ideas will not enjoy the experience. It's fiction. It's meant to be fiction. But it was one of the most entertaining books I've read in a long time. I read somewhere that it was compared to "battlefield earth." An artist's arrogant attempt to branch out believing that anything they do will turn to gold.. Well, all I know is that I could barely sit thru battlefield earth, and I couldn't put down God's Debris. I read it in one 5 hour session. Then again the next day. I highly reccomend it.
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Summary: A book that hits you 4 hours later
Review: This is an interesting story that gets you thinking as you are reading it. When you finish, you set the book down and about four hours later on of your friends catches you glazed eyes staring off into space as you suddenly find your self in deep thought contemplating the ramifications of what was presented.
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Summary: thought provoking but wrong
Review: I just read the book as a choice in a book discussion group. we have not discussed the book yet.
Its the first book of this type Ive read in a long time. I'm still trying to figure out what Scott Adams is trying to do by asking readers to find the flaws in the books's all knowing character Avatar's ideas. It seems to be a bit of a setup, watchout!.
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Summary: Another self-serving vanity project
Review: In every artist/celebrity career, there comes a point at which they believe in their own success and that everything the touch will turn to gold. This is when the public gets victimized by the "vanity project." Examples of these are "Waterworld" and "Battlefield Earth." Apparently comic strip writers are not immune to this failing. "God's Debris" is a poorly thought out collection of unrelated brain farts. It is essentially a distillation of freshman sociology and philisophy classes, pondered late into the night over beer and pizza. A more appropriate title would be: "Scott Adams: An Exercise in Hubris." The concepts are poorly reasoned, completely unsubstantiated, unimportant and irrelevant. I'll give Adams credit for trying to branch out, but a man's got to know his limitations.
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Summary: Well Well....
Review: I understand that I am 16, and that my opinon doesn't matter much. However I thought the book was amazing. I'm not one of thouse people that get excited over things easily either. But it makes you think...its somthing to disscuss. I've made my friends read it, i've sent it out to my college friends and we all talk about it. I myself had no faith, and this really made my think about that. The book opens up your mind. I would recomend it for anyone that needs somthing to talk about or that questions things
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Summary: Insightful and amusing...
Review: I have to be honest, I only read this book because I needed something short to read on the way home from work one night and this was lying around at the office. Consequently I had no preconceptions and approached the book without really knowing a great deal about it. I really was pleasantly surprised. God's Debris is an astute, amusing and insightful piece of philosophy and deserves to be read as such, rather than as a sub-project from the Dilbert bloke. I can't pretend that this changed my life or world view in any great way, but it did make me think (which I am sure is its main intention) and I am grateful to the author for stimulating my brain cells. In fact I emailed him to tell him so, using the email address at the back of the book. He emailed back the next day. Nice chap. If you like this you may well like Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder if you have not already read it. An original view on philosophy and a cracking storyline to boot.
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