Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Gorilla Teaches Man To Save Himself! Film at 11!:

This is not an easy book to review. Billed as "A Novel," futurist Daniel Quinn's tale of humanity's condition and fate on the planet is really only a "novel" in the same sense that James Redfield's "The Celestine Prophecy" was labeled a "novel:" Ishmael is basically about the author's philosophy and a set of teachings, wrapped in a thin veneer of very minimal storyline. The core lesson? Sustainability is essential to our survival. That's the "short version." Now....

I expect some of you will have come... more info

A Whole New World:

I first read 'Ishmael' about 2 years ago on a friend's recommendation. At first reading, the book most certainly did not change my life... what it offered to me was a new way of looking at how we live our lives today AND how things came to be this way. Exciting but hardly life changing material, huh? But it did exactly what Daniel Quinn intended as its objective... it raised several disturbing questions in my mind about the way I was living my life at the time. What REALLY changed my life were all the... more info

Read Moby Dick after this....:

I read this book in one day. It is good. See for yourself. So now everyone can stop fussin. I cleared it all up. Next stop, Melville....

Similar Products:

My Ishmael by DANIEL QUINN

The Story of B by DANIEL QUINN

Beyond Civilization : Humanity's Next Great Adventure by DANIEL QUINN

Providence by DANIEL QUINN

After Dachau: A Novel by Daniel Quinn

?