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Ishmael (Ishmael #1)

Daniel Quinn

Kindle Edition | Pages: 338 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 76991 Users | 5028 Reviews

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Edition Language:	English
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An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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?

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Title	:	Ishmael (Ishmael #1)
Author	:	Daniel Quinn
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 338 pages
Published	:	December 16th 2009 by Bantam (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Academic. School. Childrens. Middle Grade

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I'm not impressed with this book at all. As a novel, it fails to entertain. As a manifesto, it is too vague and shallow to enact any meaning. What frustrated me most was Quinn's lack of proof to substantiate his scientific rhetoric and his cut & paste techniques when addressing religion. What Quinn fails to recognize is that humans need more than just food. "Man cannot live by bread alone." If we returned to "Leaver" status and were fulfilled with natural-growing sustenance, man would still



This book gets many 5-star reviews and is touted as life changing.My comment: GET A LIFE!!! This could possibly be THE WORST book I have ever read. I have been reading this book forever! I am so glad I am finished! Its 200+ pages of torture! (This size of book I would normally devour in 1-2 days.) Its a sociology lecture --- a cringingly horrible, horrible, didactic book. And to top it off, its horribly written.This telepathic gorilla pontificates on culture, his take on the book of Genesis, and

Don't read this book. It was miserable.

The top three reviews on this book are salty 1 star reviews. 0_oEven if you don't agree with the philosophical underpinnings of this novel it is a thought-provoking tale of great power.The story is allegorical but even the surface story is an emotional and engaging tale.I found this deeply enjoyable. It is certainly worth your time to take a look even if you don't agree with the philosophy.

This book was worth reading but many parts bothered me. First Ishmael makes incorrect statements about how nature works, and asserts that humans have violated these rules, which is the source of our discontents. E.g. Ishmael states that other species do not attack competitors. This is false. Species will attack predators whenever there is an adaptive advantage to do so. Ishmael also states that predators never take more than they can eat. This is also false. I read an article about how predators

Intriguing story of a man and his gorilla teacher. Slow beginning but definitely picks up in interest. A challenge to our ordinary values and thinking. It speaks to the need for a new way of seeing: well, our old way is clearly not working! I haven't read the other books in the series but would like to. A creative way of exploring different possibilities of being in the world.