Book Review - "God's Debris" by Scott Adams
I had a headmaster at school who used to say, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." You don't get many book reviews written with that attitude. When I say that a good thing about Scott Adam's "God's Debris" was it was short, that sounds like a joke. However, as the author states himself, the book is more of a thought experiment than a novel, and the length was probably well judged for its purpose. It also doesn't sound positive if I say the question that hung in my mind on finishing it was, "Why did Adams write this?" It's not unusual for a writer to have a motive behind a piece of work beyond entertaining folk and getting paid for it, and it's clear the rationale behind "God's Debris" wasn't that. The entertainment part, anyway. The story's premise is that the main character meets an old man who has apparently been supernaturally gifted with knowledge of everything, and ...