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Summary: Arrogant Ishmael Reviewers
Review: Do you people writing the long negative reviews understand that using a large vocabulary just makes you sound conceded? Seriously, if you didn't like Ishmael, just say why, don't insult the book, don't insult the people who liked it, and don't insult the author. Just give it a rest, if you liked it you liked it, and if you didn't like it, get over it.
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Summary: This book is good. Very good!
Review: I love books that give the reader much to ponder long after the book is finished. It's a great experience when discussions and thoughts that come from reading a book can change your life and even others or maybe even the world. Ishmael is a confidently told story offering a perspective on life and existence. Quinn provokes a thought process within you and a discussion amoung us all. For those who are seeking a good read and possibly a different perspective read this book. Follow it up with My Ishmael and you'll have lots to think about and talk about with friends.Quinn writes in a soothing manor but somehow seems to tells it like it is. Ishmael is good!
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Summary: Seeking reader with an earnest desire to change the world
Review: It will change your outlook on the world the instant you finish the book. Very easy and fun to read. I'm not a fast reader, but read it in two days. Read with an open, but critical mind, and it will make sense. Fascinating. Eye opening.
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Summary: Ishmael's Ladder to Paradise
Review: Ishmael's book is a book that would passed on to my oldest sister. I would recommended to anybody who loves to read. Daniel Quinn is an excellent writer. Once you begain reading, you will be eager to know its ending. It develops a great dialogue. Ishmael's version of Adam and Eve was really good. This book talks a lot about nature and history. I like the way he brakes down the story into first, second, and third version. I never in my life had read a book that interesting as this one. Trust me, you'll love it! I give this book five starts because this book was amaizing.
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Summary: Without Gorilla, would there be hope for man?
Review: I think that Ishmael was a story that could have been summed up in maybe 20 pages, but was elongated into a couple hundred. I would have given it zero stars, but that wasn't one of the options. It was about a talking gorilla, a gorilla that is smarter than most humans are. The gorillas name was Ishmael, and he had opinions about the world; that evolution was not supposed to stop with man. I completely disagree with this though, i believe that god created man to live in this world how he wanted to. Ishmael kept talking about how man took living into his own hands and out of the gods, but I disagree with this also. This story was also really boring. It lacked action completely, the whole thing was almost completely dialogue. I could barely pay attention to what the book was about, i found my mind wandering all the time. The idea of a gorilla talking throughout the entire book made me so tired and bored. I know a lot of people disagree with my opinion, but that is what i think of it. I think this book is unnecessary to read, I didn't get anything out of it except a sore [backside].
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Summary: An awaking experience
Review: Over all reading Ishmael was an awaking experience. The issues that Quinn used were all facts based on research done by philosphers, biologist, ecologist, and anthropologist. The truth in what the author was describing, with the gorrilla and narrator, about our culture was factual. It made me realize that our culture is rather spoiled. Some of the theories that the author wrote about I did not agree with, such as evolution. I did like how the biblical aspect was portrayed in the book.I like the wording in the book, for example I think this quote is great, "Man was born to the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness." I think this quote pretty much sums up our culture. Overall if you want a book that test your intelletual view point about our world and the different views on how we came to be, I highly recommend this book to you.
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Summary: The Review
Review: I recently read Ishmael for my college english course and all though it has recieved great ratings from major critics, I do not agree.
There is really only one main reason I didn't like Ishmael and that reason is the setting and the characters. The entire books setting is in Ishmaels office. Ishmael is on one side of the glass and the narrator on the other. I also found the characters very boring. There is nothing about a man and a guerilla talking about evolution that excites me.
The other thing that I didn't like about this book was that there was no real plot or climax. There was no excitment. I am one of those readers that love excitment. I enjoy horror and action books.
Now, don't get me wrong, Ishmael has some good aspects. Even though I didn't enjoy the book, I did enjoy the information and concepts that it brought up. I found that information about mans greatest destiny and how the world is suppost to be a paradise, but its not because we as people have a defect and mess it up. I think that if the author, Daniel Quinn found a more affective way of presenting the same information, it would grab a lot more readers attention.
Although I did not enjoy this book, I know a lot of people who would beg to differ. My best friend loves to read books like this, but I just can't get into it.
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Summary: Self-Destruction is a calamity
Review: Ishmael is a gorilla that Daniel Quinn personfied to give the narrator the enlightment to reveal manifestly the mundane problems that go about all around us, which are taking place in our industrial modernized world today. The author describes the two types of men. These men are those who are destroying and annihilateing the natural resoures because of egotistical necessities who Daniel describes as the Takers, and the Leavers are the men whom he describes as men who are in the hand of the gods. Ishmael,the gorilla, who philosophizes the on the word "captivity. It teaches the narrator step by step on the how the world went through physical change. Ishmael said that men did not evolve, but men learned to gather more knowledge converting it into wisdom. It also used illustrations to direct and guide his pupils to earnly save the world from those who lack the common sense of exterminating the living ceatures, plants and any thing that has life. The gorilla taught one student who really got intrigued with the philosophical teachings that it gave out by demostrating it through history, theology, and science. The narrator learns through asking quizzical questions that lead him to realize how msn's destiny falls into place,which he emphasizes how the takers endeavor in a world of luxury and comfortable set back, and the Leavers were those who did not care to live flamboyant life-style. They were the one lacked knowledge and lived in dependency of animal meat. They were the hunter-gather who also lived off an agricultural environment.
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Summary: opening up to Ishmael
Review: Ishmael was a very intersting book. If it had not been assigned to me I am sure it is a book I never would have read. However, after finishing the book I am glad it came into my hands. The book emphasizes human behavior and whether you agree with it or not it allowes you to open your mind to new ways of thinking. With the use of analogies the reader is able to envision what is being said. Ishmael, while not centered on environmalism, helps bring the reader to a new awareness of the world around them and all life in it. I recommend this to all those seeking a book with a different kind of style and opions on life in general.
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Summary: Monkey Finally Shocks Man
Review: This book is a definate eye opener. It has everything that is painfully obvious to us all and brings it back to the spotlight.I really love the way Daniel Quinn chooses the charaters to illustrate some very important points. There are times where you feel confused but then we have Ismael to jump in at all the right moments to help us understand.Once you allow yourself to get wrapped up in this amazing story with real life issues.You will find yourself caring about what is at stake in our everyday lives.It goes even further to illustrate some serious points to ponder.Please put this book on your list of "must reads" It wil take you places that you will never have thought to go.
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