How Can You Write An Entire Book . . .

. . . upon hypothesizing? I'm reading a book about João Rodrigues, a missionary who was the model for Father Alvito in the novel Shogun.

But the first hundred pages or so are filled with sentences like " He must have . . ." "It is probable that . . ." It is possible that . . ." "It is not fully known, but . . ." "Records of the time indicate that he might have . . ." "There are few remaining documents that might point a clue at . . ."

What, is that a book? Fuck, _I_ can write that. "Jesus was possibly a Jew living in what is now, according to some historians, a territory in Israel . . . it is debatable in which year he was born, but sources point to zero A.D. It is not known who his parents were but it is reasonable to assume that . . . blah blah blah."

That's a book? Get your shit together, dude, and write a real book, like, maybe, about flower arranging? That's a subject you can sink your teeth into.