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My Ishmael

Author: Daniel Quinn
Publisher: Bantam USA
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

12 reviews
Sales Rank: 202996

Media: Paperback
Edition: Bantam Trade Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.7

ISBN: 0553379658
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553379655
ASIN: 0553379658

Publication Date: January 1, 1920
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Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Thought provoking and mind changing July 2, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

Having first read Ishmael and now this book, I have just started on my third Daniel Quinn book "the Story of B". I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book. Where do I go from here? As Ishmael says: You may reach one or a million people with the message. And that's what I'll try.

5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely enlightening - you will view the world anew April 17, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

I have read the critical reviews of this book, and I have to say with all due respect, that those who criticize are reading this book with the wrong attitude. Quinn is not proposing a return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, nor is he suggesting that humans are unnatural organisms that are inherently wrong. He merely shines the light on simple flaws in our perspective, and with great hope and optimism provides a shining new world prospect. Whether or not you agree personally with Quinn, his book WILL make you think, and how can that be bad? Personally, it changed my life.

5 out of 5 stars

The Best Book I have ever read in my entire life!!!! January 8, 1999
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

Daniel Quinn is a genius. Unbelievably thought provoking. The best book is My Ishmael and it is plainly because of the questions asked by the simian, Ishmael. The challenge that this book presents as a little girl Julie is not yet knowing the full task at hand. She seems competant, and is reassured by Ishmael. The values taught and learned from this book are truly amazing and in depth. Everyone should read this book, they do not know what they are missing. The best novel I have read in my life simply because the morals and explanations of life itself.

5 out of 5 stars

My personal favorite! September 5, 1998
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Despite the other reviews that I have noticed on Amazon.com, My Ishmael is my personal favorite of Daniel Quinn. Ishmael teaches this 12 year old girl, Julie, so many of the things that are needed to be taught in our culture. Daniel Quinn, via Ishmael, tells the complete truth in this book and it is all perfectly valid and based on his many years of study. I have never been so inspired and so pleased to be filled with knowledge before in my life.

1 out of 5 stars

Incredibly disappointing July 12, 1998
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am a great fan of Ishmael and as such was shocked by the lack of content in "My Ishmael". The book is disjointed and suggests an emotionally disturbed writer. The thought provocking portion of the book could have been written in five pages. The main character challenges believability more than a talking gorilla. This 12 year old girl puts James Bond to shame. The purpose seems to be creating excitment rather than communicating thought provocing questions as in "Ishmael". The two books are so different that I question whether Daniel Quinn actually wrote this book.

The one redeeming point is his perspective on our educational system.

To summarize: The book was so lacking in content that I would never have finished it had I not read Ishmael first. To the very end I hoped that there was some purpose in the direction that the story was taking -- but I found none. I felt deceived and cheated.