Ishmael

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Summary: So true
Review: I would really like to know other peoples reaction. We are destroying ourselves. On the Hopi reservation there is a carved rock that tells the story of destrution. We do not have long.We need to work hard to save this world.I am from the Mewuk Tribe in Toulmne city.

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Summary: Excellent, if you like thought provoking books!
Review: I was assigned to read this book over summer vacation by my honors English teacher. While reading the book, and not searching deep for any sort of meaning, I hated the book and thought it was the most terrible book I have ever read. Once returning back to school, and having my teacher explain it all, I can so much clearer understand the world I live in. A MUST READ for anyone who doesn't want to go through life with his/her head in the clouds!! Come down and take a look at our comfortable society we live in and its consequences on everyone else!! Don't pay so much attention to the monotonous tone throughout the book, pick out the meanings and just let it carry you away.

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Summary: finished ishmael tonight
Review: i give ishmael the honor of being placed in my "top 4 books" list. the content came at why society is wrong from a fresh, new perspective. in the end, it also answers the question the reader asks themself for the entire book,"what can I do about it?". i give daniel quinn a lot of credit for practicing what he preaches...trying to teach people there is something wrong-and we can fix it- instead of watching it go down. uplifting. inspiring. it's always good to see there's someone else on OUR SIDE.

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Summary: Intriguingly thought-provoking, but a "light" read
Review: "Ishmael" is a book that falls squarely in the middle in terms of what it has to offer. The ideas and notions of human evolution and the way we are "eating up" the planet give serious pause. This is the kind of book that makes the reader stop reading every few pages just to ponder what has just been discovered. "Ishmael" offers things to think about long after the reading is done. Unfortunately, not a lot of books do that these days. On the other hand, "Ishmael" is very thinnly written. There is nothing in the way of plot, and nearly nothing in the way of character development. Essentially, "Ishmael" is a dialogue between two characters. The best (and really only)memorable setting is a brief paragraph or two at a carnival grounds. Again, the dialogue is intense and thought-provoking, but, ultimately, the lack of essential elements of good fiction makes this book fall just a bit flat. "Ishmael" is a quick read and is sure to inspire much internal thought and water-cooler discussion with friends who have read the book. I would reccommend "Ishmael" but only with the qualifier that you cannot expect much more than dialogue. I have heard that Quinn's book "The Story of B" is much more developed in terms of fictional elements, and I liked the idea-challenging nature of "Ishmael" enough to keep reading Quinn's books.

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Summary: A Must Read.
Review: There's a couple of things I'd like to note that haven't yet been mentioned. First off, for anyone who's read this book and enjoyed it, I'd recommend Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. This and Walsch's book remain at the top of my Best Books list, and for good reason too. Believe me when I tell you that you can't get a more interesting book.

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Summary: Makes you wonder about everything that you learned in school
Review: In Ishmael Quinn makes the reader unlearn everything that our culture teaches us and then to examine it in a completely new way. This book will make you wonder about your faith, your history, and the future of man kind.

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Summary: Good ideas, but flawed...
Review: Quinn has written a thought provoking book, which happens to be basically flawed. humankind is tainted by sin. it is. we can't shake the habit, we can't close our eyes to the perverseness that surrounds us. Quinn is not the first to suggest that we attempt to rise above our nature, and like all the others, our flight is doomed for failure. the second flaw in Quinn's ideas is removing inate value from each human life. even though we selfish, blind creatures, we are created in the image of God. we bear a divine spark, and are just as capable of beauty as we are of terror. the answer to third-world hunger is not to ignore it, it is to make resitution for the ways our country (the US), and europe have raped and destroyed whole cultures. this is true not only for africa, but also for asia, russia, native americans, latin americans, south american. i agree with the idea that "taker", or western civilization cannot last. but perhaps that wouldn't be the tragedy that everyone seems to assume it would be. we need to open our eyes, acknowledge our frailty and weakness and well as our beauty and strength, and extend our love to the least of these. because if we allow fellow human-beings to die because of a "natural process", that will be the greatest tragedy.

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Summary: School project
Review: Review is that I'm trying to find out somethings because i need help on a school project on the takers devastation on the environment. i need 10 of them so please help. i need help as soon as possible .And please help me find some articles on the enviromental devastation/concious heros on the environment.

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Summary: The book, was interesting, but more less it was confusing...
Review: This book was okay in the beggining but in the end, the book began to get very,very confusing, I am only going to be a freshmen this year and we we're assasigned to read this book.. I see no reason for the GORILLA to die. It really ended like a cliff hanger, you are pretty much suppose to guess how the book ended..... I really would not recomend this book to anyone who doesn't have patience........................

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Summary: A thought provoking read
Review: My friends at school begged for me to read this book and when i finally did I was disappointed. I had expected a life-changing experience or perhaps some form of enlightenment. Neither of these occurred. Still the book was quite thought provoking and definetely deserves some kind of honor. But in the same respect no book has so much to offer that it can be considered a bible.