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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553375404
ISBN: 0553375407
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: July 01, 1995
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: May 01, 1995
Studio: Bantam
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Editorial Review:
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - This should be required reading.
This book changed my worldview, and I think someday, it will have changed my life. I've read it easily five or six times, and I always come back to it every few years or so. Thus far, I have yet to actually implement Quinn's ideas in my own life, but I can never look at the world and our culture (of which I now have a better perspective and understanding) in the same way. It's through the looking glass, it's Neo discovering the Matrix, it's looking up at the puppet show. I can see the strings now, ... Read More
Rating:  - Three stars - interesting ideas, very little storyline
The bulk of Ishmael is dialog, and while I do feel I learned from the book, much of it was boring and I found it difficult to finish. There was no real storyline to grab my attention and I thought a lot of the dialog was pretentious.
Go into this book to expand your knowledge - but don't expect "an adventure of the mind and spirit" as the title suggests. As another reviewer suggested, if you treat it as a work of non-fiction (in that you will be absorbing mostly straight history and ... Read More
Rating: - "To the Point"
I'm not going to tell you whats going on in the novel, as many other reviews from the book start.
Ishmael is a great book. I don't read, at all. But I have read this book with ease and found it hard to put it down. And it inspires me to read more books, and I will.
This book, teaches us somethings of life, but not everything, its does not give an exact explanation, of how to save the world. It does explain in ones own philosophy of 'how thing came to be the way the ... Read More
Rating: - Great book!
After I read this book, I bought it for all my friends for Christmas. Definately a book you want to pass along. Powerful message.
Rating: - Ishmael: An Adventure Of The Mind And Spirit
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn *****
Ishmael is a stunning narrative on the way things came to be. A story of awareness and philosophy; the way things are and the way things could be. A wonderfully heart-warming, and heart-wrenching tale of acceptance and tolerance.
Ishmael is a Gorilla, who can communicate with humans. Those who want to communicate with him anyway. Sounds a but Peter Pan I know but it really isn't. After Ismael places an add in the paper looking for "A willing student ... Read More
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