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Summary: Mind expansion at it's best
Review: Rarely do books challenge and stimulate the intellect. In Ishmael, Quinn succeeds in doing both, with his fresh ideas, ammalgamated from a lifetime of reading. His ideas are important and can lead to a new level of consciousness, one that now incorporates the possibility that our current 'path' is an evolutionary dead-end. As such, the visions are almost prophetic. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in looking beyond the forest.
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Summary: Ishmael changed the way I see the world!
Review: Ishmael changed the way I see the world! I am a sophomore in high school and after reading Ishmael and other of Quins books I have a larger world view than most of my teachers. I highly recommend this easy read to any body how ever questioned there parents, teachers, or politicians.
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Summary: A shocking perspective of humanity's impact on the world
Review: This novel addresses the fundamental solution to saving the world. EDUCATION. It all begins with dialogue. Quinn is successful in convincing us that our most recent behavior as a species is one of continuing destruction. Not just to ourselves, but to all living species. If we are to reverse this destructive trend, we must begin by discussing it today! The book refers to an interesting example. Our natural compassion gene tells us to help starving people in Africa by sending them food. What will result is the explosion of 10,000,000 starving individuals into 20,000,000 starving individuals due to their huge birth rate. What do we due? Do we let them starve? Do we educate them to how they can control their population? It is interesting to note that Mr. Quinn is illuminating us to the fact that we as a species have created this trajedy, and if we are to solve the problem we must understand what caused it. I was completely blown away by Quinn's observations and conclusions. It is a must read for anyone concerned with Spaceship Earth.
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Summary: An awe-inspiring chronicle of man's inhumanity to nature.
Review: There are currently no words in the english language that express the JUGGERNAUT of heavenly superiority of this book. That may not make sense, but it's because I can't quite find the appropriate words... man, just dig this novel. It'll make the sun shine brighter, the rains fall lighter, and your mind and body just heighten and expand a little bit more... with gorilla gone, will there be any hope for man?
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Summary: This book doesn't offer answers the way most people expect
Review: After reading Ishmael and then reading the reviews on this web site, the issue I feel I can help clarify a little better is this:This book does not give answers, THIS BOOK GIVES US THE ABILITY TO FIND ANSWERS. Like teaching a man to fish so he can feed his entire village etc. Don't read this book if you are competely happy with the way you live AND you don't care at all if other people around you have questions about what our culture is doing to other cultures and to nature. Read this book as a continent sized 'stepping stone' to help you START walking across the 'ocean of ignorance' threatening to drown our culture. It is today
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Summary: An incredible realization of Man Vs. the rest of the kingdom
Review: What I can say about this book is that as I read the story, I recognized the horrible race we know as Man. I was angry and I took up the side of the rest of the kingdom, ashamed to be human.
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Summary: fast fact
Review: Every member from Pearl Jam strongly reccomends this book.
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Summary: I hated the book.
Review: I read the book. I hated the book. I read the book because I had to read the book. I was seriously considering throwing the book across the room like the narrator was doing to the newspaper on the first page. My teacher told me to read this book for school so I had no choice. If you want to help save the world, stop wasting trees by buying these dumb books!! quinn goes on and on and on and on and on and on about how humans are bad and we should stop. A good book?! Except for rare occasions and the beginning of each section (sometimes not even then), your lucky if you know who's saying what!! The narrator always answers with "Yes, that's so" and "True" and "Yes" and "Of Course". Please!! I had to read one page, stop and take a break, and then read the next. It was so frusturating. Quinn uses paper from the trees he's trying to save and fills it with important-looking, yet empty repetetive stupidity. On a brief review on the cover, Jim Briwell says: 'From now on I will divide books into two categories-the ones I read before ISHMAEL and the ones after'. That proves he has not really read the better of the novels. I am telling you, if you really want to have an even 25% chance of surviving it, DON'T READ IT UNLESS IT IS COMPLETELY MANDATORY!! Save yourself! I wish I could have.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read-MUST READ.
Review: The back to basics idealism that was my ideal and goal now pales in comparison after having read ISHMAEL. As others have said, you want to run out and DO something when you realize that Ishmel's message is, that man will become extinct unless!! Daniel Quinn lets the reader choose for his/her own the plan of action to take rather than having Ishmael spell it out. The message and HOW IT CAME TO BE THAT WAY was put forth in a most interesting way. At first thought this was going to be an agnostic view point and would try to sway the reader away from belief in a higher being. In no way does Mr Quinn try to lead the reader into any direction other than the one comprising his thesis of the book; which is MAN IS HEADED FOR EXTINCTION. A MUST READ!!!
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Summary: You need to read this book- mans last hope.
Review: After reading ishmael, I went on to reading "The Story of B" also by Quinn. I began to realize that this is not an ordinary book that you read and then tell a friend about, and countinue on living the way you were. There is a message i can't deny, and i will never be the same, never go back to thinkning the way i used to. And i have decided to do my part in passing on the message through my music.
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