A review of...
Ishmael
In the past few centuries there have been a handful of books written that offer up ideas about humanity that are so completely new to a reader but are so completely convincing that they can force a reader to take a step back and assess all that they know to be true about their life and their purpose. Daniel Quinn has succeeded in creating such a book in Ishmael, a collection of new ideas about man, his evolution, and the "destiny" that keeps him captive.
When I began reading Ishmael I was amazed by the ideas offered by Quinn. Like in Rambo and the Dalai Lama by Gordon Fellman I was looking at the world not as it must be but as it could be. I was very surprised
and excited, that as a member of "generation X" that tries so hard to create their own destiny, that I had never perceived or questioned "Mother Culture".
In the first one hundred pages if Ishamel I found a number of convincing ideas that I believe I will take away with me. The greatest......

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Title: Ishmael
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