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Summary: What a load of Sophmoric Horse Pucky
Review: Quinn has written the typical kind of "new age" tale that makes technology, white men, and even civilization the villian. In the process, he distorts Judao-Christian imagery to reinforce that it was, what else, a white MAN that was the source of all evil in the universe. His backward timeline plot device is juvenile and even results in counter-points to his sophmoric diatribe when the line is reversed. Case in point, his native American female who comments on white men putting coal (trash) back in the earth while she puts turquoise (treasure) back in the earth. Does this mean that native Americans are taking treasure out of the earth and white men are only taking garbage. I don't think that is Quinn's point, but it is illustrative of the shallow level of his thinking. His discussion of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil misses not only the surface point made in the Judao-Christian tradition, but it also misses the deeper meanings that are understood in the wisdom traditions. Don't waste your time. If you want a comic book, go buy Spiderman. If you want philosophy, read the Dalai Lama or anything with more depth than a comic book.
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Summary: Provocative ideas from a non-conventional thinker
Review: Quinn yet again brings us along on a mind bending journey, simple in its delivery yet profound in its effect. Great beginning ideas and pictures to introduce kids into seeing the world in a different way from the onslaught of contemporary culture. Some adults, however, may find this approach unsophisticated.
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Summary: Vivid, Imaginative, Important
Review: Reading this book will provoke what the Situationists called detournement - a perspective-jarring tournabout in your life. What creativity! Here Quinn inverts time, and thus we see the unmaking or withering of civilization - an amazing sight to behold for those who feel trapped in the concretized, strip-mall-exuding whirligig we all know as the modern NOW! Discover the origins of humanity and the meaning of life by living it BACKWARDS. Couldn't put the books down. Will cherish and share it with friends, family and students alike. Another slam dunk for Quinn.
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Summary: Showcases what the graphic novel does best
Review: Superbly illustrated in full color by Tim Eldred, The Man Who Grew Young is Daniel Quinn's unique and fascinating story of a man who lives backward through time and history. Readers get a very special and thought provoking presentation of human society retreated from the heights of technology (and pollution) back through time as the advances of civilization are methodically undone with men and women being resurrected from their graves, living back down the years of their lives, and ending with absorption into their mother's bodies. But Adam Taylor is unique -- he continues to live back through time, seeking the answer to who, what and why he is, down to the very dawn of humanity before finding his ultimate answer. Brilliantly written, wonderfully illustrated, The Man Who Grew Young is a perfect story that showcases what the graphic novel does best -- combine memorable artwork with unforgettable story telling.
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Summary: Quit moving backwards and READ this book!
Review: THE MAN WHO GREW YOUNG - is a phenomenal and powerful book that illustrates the world moving in a different direction. Aside from the beautiful artwork - which in itself makes this book a great addition to any collection - the story itself borders on revolutionary and visionary. Challenging all levels and concepts of history and humanity, the story takes you on a truly amazing journey through time.
While this book is a must buy for any Quinn fan, it is also a superb introduction to his work and a new way of thinking for those new to his writing.
Do yourself a favor and add this book to your collection. Usually when you read a review of a Daniel Quinn book you'll find that the reviews fall into two categories. The first sort of come from either loyal readers whose lives have been changed through reading Quinn's work, or from people who are intrigued with Quinn's concepts and ideas on how to save the world. The second type of review comes from those who are hostile towards his work and his readers because it scares them. Quinn writes with painful honesty about this modern world that we live in. His novels don't beat you over the head with ideology, but rather tell clever stories with important messages. Strangely, there are those that find these messages threatening as Quinn's writings ask the reader to challenge the conventional outlook on the world and "civilized" culture.
****WARNING!!!****
THE MAN WHO GREW YOUNG will make your mind move in directions you never thought possible. . .
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Summary: Serendipitous!
Review: The Man Who Grew Young is beautifully crafted, and unveils more splendid "Quinn-isms." And Tim Eldred illustrated it gorgeously! It's another book to encourage the incremental growth and change desired by those "with ears to hear and eyes to see" - fans or not.
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Summary: a book chasing its tail
Review: They tried to prettify this book with pictures, but ultimately it's a book that doesn't quite know what it is, other than pop-derivative mumbo jumbo. Daniel Quinn has pulled some fuzzy lint from his navel and tried to make something from it, but the results are disappointing and hardly readable. More fuel for some type of cult book, but ultimately a waste of time.
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Summary: Good Quinn Lite
Review: This a a great quick read--a good, well-illustrated story that showcases some of Quinn's critique of modern industrial civilization along the way. Not brimming with new ideas like Story of B or Ishmael, but worth reading nonetheless.
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Summary: Good Quinn Lite
Review: This a a great quick read--a good, well-illustrated story that showcases some of Quinn's critique of modern industrial civilization along the way. Not brimming with new ideas like Story of B or Ishmael, but worth reading nonetheless.
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Summary: Wow, a little bizarre but pretty cool!
Review: This is a very unusual story to come across in a comic book, though the plot itself has of course been done before, especially in a sci-fi book. This story is all about a man who lives in the world where things go "backwards" all the way from the modern times to the untamed prehistory, yet people seem to take it as the normal way. In fact, those characters have NEVER ever heard of "death", especially since all babies go back into their mother's wombs at the "end" of their lives. (Isn't that a romantic notion?) The man is the "odd" one out, since he doesn't have a mother anywhere to return to her womb. So he goes on a guest that lasts many thousands of years before he finally finds the "answer". And he encounters many interesting people along the way, like women "without" husbands, wise old men who pass along wisdom, and families that come and go. Very nice artwork with more than a touch of realism in it - no muscular superheroes or beautiful women, sorry.
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