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Summary: Absolutely Stunning
Review: I picked up this book at 10:00 last night. It's now three AM, and I jusy finished reading it cover to cover.After Dachau is simply that good. A fan familiar with Daniel Quinn's other works, I was pleasantly surprised to find After Dachau to be a more carefully constructed novel than books like Ishmael. Instead of philosophy revealed through conversation, the reader is instead presented with an enormous metaphor. The premise is simple: a wealthy member of the idle rich persues his dream by volunteering as a researcher at an institute that studies reincarnation. Assigned to a case in New York, he soon finds that nothing is as it seems. Those who know Quinn's views of human history will likely be able to sniff out the metaphor early on, but After Dachau is accessable even to the average reader. Rather than a dystopic novel like "1984" or "Brave New World," which some of the reviews seem to liken After Dachau to, this book instead forces us to examine our past, rather than be concerned about our future (although a concern for the future logially follows examination of the past!) I can highly recommend this book. It has the potential to take its place among works like "1984" and "BNW" in classrooms across the world, and it likely should be afforded such an honor. Give it a read; you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Good, but could have been much better.
Review: I felt the book was very rushed. It's rather short and I read it in one sitting in just a few hours. I really wanted deeper character and plot development and more details on Jason "finding out who he is" and Mallory/Gloria's transition into her new self and world. So many things seem to be lacking or brushed over, it almost feels like an hour tv-show instead of a enthralling novel. I was just getting into it when it ended. :-/ Don't get me wrong though, I think Quinn is an incredible writer and I enjoyed reading this book. I've read the Ishmael books and Story of B and there are very few books that have moved me like they did. But After Dachau is certainly not the same caliber material as his previous work, but I applaud Quinn for exploring.
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Summary: About After Dachau
Review: This book is Magnificant. I started reading it at 11:00 PM, told myself I'd put it down at midnight, and read it through until two. If you want to question, be passionate, and be challanged you MUST read this book. I dare you to read until page 115. You will be 100% involved in this book.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I've never read a Quinn book before, but now I want to read every one of them! It has been a very, very long time that I've read a book as thought provoking and surprising as this one. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Destined to be a classic.
Review: Though I'm an unabashed fan of Daniel Quinn's work, readers can take my word that After Dachau is another gem. My criteria for recomending a work of fiction is that it must entertain me, keep my attention, and leave me with something I didn't have before...some lasting understanding, or at least a "Wow!". Readers who like Orwell, Huxley, Heinlen, will love this. Readers of Quinn's Ishmael may have expected something else, but...give this new book a chance. It's really is worth it!
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Summary: Worth every cent
Review: Part 1 - A Review for Non-'Ishmael'-readers: If any of you never have heard of Daniel Quinn this is surely a book as good to start with as another. Quinn shows us not really a view of the future, as some may find. It's more an utopy and only in this point it's similar with '1984'. It's not really pessimistic, because he doesn't show us something which 'could' happen. It's more a clever parabel about how much you can accept the world's history without ever really questioning it. The surprising twist in the middle left me stunned and speechless. It's a really suspenseful book, which is very fast and easy to read. I can only recommend this to anyone (also the ones I will refer to next). Except for the boring, really overlong 'climbing-down-the-underground'-passage this book is somehow perfect. Part 2 - A Review to 'Ishmael'/DQ-Readers: I will only refer to the ones who think they must be annoyed because of this book. What the hell did you expect? Did you really wanted another preaching book where we're told what we have to do? Do you really want to just going on reading the things instead of doing them? And, by the way, why can't you accept that DQ is an author, which means, he doesn't want to write the same book again and again. This is a great book, not handling THE topic so directly as the others, but anyway it does, and those who can't accept this are, in my opinion, narrow-minded.
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Summary: Ideas stronger than ever; disarray abounds in arrangment
Review: Daniel Quinn is the enigma of all futurists. From the man who brought two and three word animist slogans like, "walk away" and "Its not me" comes his most bizzare attempt in taking us to "no one cares". He weaves his best story yet,( which isnt saying much) using reincarnation of one Mallory Hastings as his time warp this time around, instead of the lovable yet ever so dull twig gnawing gorilla Ishmael. As Ishmael took us into "our" history Mallory Hastings and Jason Tull take us into our future through their history as Quinn hits us mid course with a bolt from the blue about the true meaning of After Dachau (I'll give you a hint the AD comes into play heavily). For readers who have have read Quinns prior works this novel seems to curiously lead us away from the theme until nearing a conclusion it seems Quinn lost control mid course and fed us this a bizzare tale of Jason Tull ironically enough being in vacuum of a place with the exact variables needed where Quinn works his magic questioning techniques this will undoubtedly keep Quinnians mezmorized for months about what does this message exactly mean? This book is either too complex and much too layered to dissolve or eccentrically segmented and reads as if the story is just in the way of the idea (which is true in all Quinn's novels). As always Quinns characters, even the lead ones, have more than few traits that tie with the idea. For instance Jason Tull was zicon of wealthy family it fits in nicely with finding out who you are as most heirs to fortuanes do. Also the idea of reinicarnation is virtually dropped as soon as Mallory learns were she is. Quinn uses absolutely illogical methods and story plots and twists to make it give the idea his is trying to present perfect variables. It is a riveting read however convoluted the actual story is but to Quinn diehards they have come to expect this sort of effort. The fact of the matter it would be nice if Mr. Quinn were able to fuse his ideas in nicely with a cohesive plot, but his ideas are so unique to this day and age that even the fact the story is cut n paste smoothed over with jaw dropping meandering revelations and much better character definement than in The Story of B and My Ishmael. For new comers to Mr. Quinns work you have choosen quite the story to begin with. It has an Orwellianish tinge and will give the wrong idea of Quinn who almost could be mistaken for jewish conspiracy theorist(hey it could be if your first time reader..). It's really nice he added at the end of the book the note of about what elements he employs dont always fit his beliefs as with transmigration of souls. It would have been nice to add the the three chapters or so about Jew bashing and Aryan children praising Hitler however indispensable to the crux of the whole story was indeed not "his" view. Its scary, yet plausible to think that this book might actually fuel lowly Jew watchers around the world as there dense minded nature will take quickly to the supposed new "history". In the end Mr. Quinn positively instilled that like Napoleon said, "History, is just agreed upon fiction." And what 'No one cares" about, is up for us to decipher. I thoroughly had an enjoyable time going through the motives of this new effort from a man I highly respect. He has the ideas no one has right now or could present with this type of clarity for that I'll accept any effort that continues the line of questioning about the place of our species in our time. In an earlier book, My Ishmael I believe; Mr. Quinn talked extensively about the simple yet astounishing nature of the Industrial Revolution where ones ideas where improved by the next and no one leader or one place was in charge of leading this revolution. I am eagerly waiting for the next person who will take Mr. Quinns ideas and show us another way this can be explained. I wanted to rate this book 4.5 stars but was unable to. Thanks for reading this somewhat of a clustered review and perception of the book.
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Summary: WoW if you are And WoW if you Aren't into ReIncarnation!
Review: I've read all of Daniel Quinns books except Dreamer. My favorite is Story of B as far as its ideas and realizations go. After Dachau is the best book by Daniel Quinn that I have read as just a story. He has proven himself as being a great thinker as well as a great writer with this book. Basically his books are MINDBLOWING. After Dachau goes even further by becomming almost disturbing to the reader. Even though the book starts out being about reincarnation it is really about alot more than this. Reincarnation is only the setting by which he brings out his other ideas and introduces the actual setting of the book. Things are not what they seem in the first half of the book. I don't think that it is necessary for people to have read any of Daniel Quinns other books to have read After Dachau. In fact, if you haven't read any of his other books then After Dachau will shock you even more. Believe me it's a real page turner; I read it in less than 48 hrs. If you like this book then you would probably also like Ishmael-Daniel Quinn's bestseller. Muslim B
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Summary: Brilliant!!!!!!!!
Review: Daniel Quinn has given us a situation that addresses all the central issues of Ishmael, but in a different way. And, as always, he is amazing story-writer too!!!! Highly recommended to everyone.
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Summary: Worth Reading
Review: . For me it is useful to separate the book's message from its delivery. The message of the text is superlative. It uses an exclusively-human analogy to describe something that we're currently in the process of doing in the not-exclusively-human world. (No, I'm not talking about reincarnation here.) However, I wonder if this message is readily available to new readers of Quinn. The delivery seemed rushed at times...as though the narrator, and perhaps author, was in a hurry. It is difficult to know whether this is deliberate. One example is when Mallory listens to the students--this appears especially rushed. Overall, the message outshines the delivery; the message is sufficiently important to warrant reading the book. This book is being compared to Orwell's "1984." Neil Postman once described "1984" as a book about the things we hate that control us; conversely, Postman described Huxley's "Brave New World" as a book about the things that we love that control us. I see "After Dachau" as a book about the things we don't even know about that control us--in particular, our behavior, our thoughts, our actions, and our beliefs.
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