Review of the Review

Well, I googled up some other reviews of "God's Debris" and found numerous customer reviews at Amazon.

The good news: most everyone agrees with me. Several people were sympathetic to Adams' goal of trying to stir up people's thinking, and many, many more were excoriating him for really poor thinking in the book.

The bad news: most of the reviews were much more interesting to read than mine. Sigh. You can read them here. Of course, it's the really blistering reviews that are the most fun to read. Maybe I simply am not ruthless enough to write a good review. Naw . . . I just got out-written.

What was especially interesting to note in the reviews was how much people disagreed about how easily reader's could critique the book. One reviewer thought that "most people will find [it]exceeds their knowledge of probability, physics, religion, philosophy, evolution, psychology and logic." Others (closer to my soul) thought it was so glaringly awful that only a poorly educated public could ever find it "compellinh." Alas, I think it will wind up like The Celestine Prophesy, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, or most any book by Deepak Chopra: people below a certain level of critical thinking will find it wonderful, and people above that level will think it awful, and even more infuriating for being seductive to those who can't see it's flaws.

Since I work directly with college students, I am tempted to put the book to the test with them, and see how quickly they could tear it apart.