Ishmael

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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 wonderful than he has ever imagined Best Read [ Ishmael ] by [ Daniel Quinn ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Are you the sort of person who hears other people discussing books and finding yourself wondering how they can even form opinions on stories I mean, either you like it or you don t, right Well, if that s you, then read this book, The Giver, and Siddhartha if that sounds like too much, substitute Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the latter Once you ve done that, you ll feel all sorts of strange emotions and ideas swirling around inside you and you, too, will be able to talk about how a book m Are you the sort of person who hears other people discussing books and finding yourself wondering how they can even form opinions on stories I mean, either you like it or you don t, right Well, if that s you, then read this book, The Giver, and Siddhartha if that sounds like too much, substitute Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the latter Once you ve done that, you ll feel all sorts of strange emotions and ideas swirling around inside you and you, too, will be able to talk about how a book made you think.Then, you should watch Donnie Darko which will become your favorite movie , and you can talk about how movies made you think, ...My biggest problem with primitivism as a philosophy is its inherent hypocrisy Notice how it s always highly educated white dudes insulated from the world who clamor for a return to some idealized simpler life In the case of this book, it s a distinguished professor haughtily preaching about how we should learn some lessons from hunter gatherer people, channeling his philosophy through a gorilla character who converses with an everyman character Ishmael the gorilla makes a passing derogato My biggest problem with primitivism as a philo...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 It s 200 pages of torture This size of book I would normally devour in 1 2 days It s a sociology lecture a cringingly horrible, horrible, didactic book And to top it off, it s horribly written.This telepathic gorilla pontificates on culture, his take on the book of Genes 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 t...The reason I like Quinn s style in Ishmael is that he doesn t assume a pedantic perch atop humanity and force feed a philosophically driven, A Z laundry list of how to make yourself a better human being and save the world one person at a time mantra down the reader s throat His style of writing is intimate Reading Ishmael kind of reminds you of sitting in lect...This book was recommended to me from my Ecology teacher on Saturday I bought it the same day because i really needed a decent read i having been craving this all the time lately I did not put it down until i was done with it two days later The premise is a man talking to a gorilla however simple and idiotic that may seem to you, this story reveals so eloquently what i have always b... Step right up, ladies and gentlemen Behold the majesty of Curious George as he gets all dialogue y on your ass Your encounter will leave you changed You, too, may find yourself flinging poop at civilization along with our simian saviorA telepathic gorilla develops something like consciousness, is happily able to flower under the attentive stewardship of a George Soros type philanthropist and waxes philosophical to a disenchanted idealist This book stinks of anthropological and ecological p Step right up, ladies and gentlemen Behold the majesty of Curious George as he gets all dialogue y on your ass Your encounter will leave you changed You, too, may find yourself flinging poop at civilization along with our simian saviorA telepathic gorilla develops something like consciousne...I haven t finished this book yet but I probably won t because it sucks First of all, it s supposed to be a novel but it s entirely didactic The author has simply substituted this gorilla to preach at us in the author s voice The viewpoint character is simple minded and vacuous to the point of not existing In fact, he s just there as the foil or receptacle for th...Although, purposefully didactic, it was beautiful It read incredibly fast, but it sits with you for a very long time Imagine eating something quick and cheap like a taco bell burrito only to discover that once it reached your stomach, it felt like a 7 course meal at a 5 star restaurant Definitely plenty of intellectual bang for your buck Lately, absurdly leftist books s...A little story about Ishmael by Daniel Quinn I first read this back in the fall of 99 for a college course It was a time in my life where for a variety of reasons, including a breakup of a long relationship I was first began to think for myself, instead of think what others wanted me to think This book completely wiped away the world view that my parents, friends, and teachers had put into my head for so many years, and then began the formation of my own view Since then I have been a seeke A little story about Ishmael by Daniel Quinn I first read this back in the fall of 99 for a college course It was a time in my life where for a variety of reasons, including a breakup of a long r...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 pred...

Ishmael
  • English
  • 04 July 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 338 pages
  • Daniel Quinn
  • Ishmael