Skinner in 'Walden Two.'' - 'Los Angeles Times Book Review. Think of Robert Pirsig in 'Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle' Maintenance or B.F. The Takers enact a difficult, antagonistic story that ultimately makes life not easier, but instead more anxiety-ridden. 'As suspenseful, inventive and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year.' - 'The Austin Chronicle.' Ishmael, page 147 Quinn adamantly suggests that many of mankind's most pernicious problems have arisen from Taker culture, and are not inherent qualities of human beings. As readers everywhere seek out books that offer answers to their burning questions about spirituality, the popularity of this remarkable novel continues to grow at an astounding pace. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell. 'I am the teacher, ' the gorilla replies. 'you are the teacher?' he asks, incredulously. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils only to find himself alone in an abandonded office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch.

The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search of truth. Now this irresistible novel of a spiritual adventure is available in trade paperback for the first time ever. By the time the mass market paperback edition of this novel was published last year, word was spreading like wildfire. Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award - a prize for fiction that offered solutions to global problems - it was an utterly unique story that earned raves from readers and critics alike. As a Gorilla he has a totally different view on the world.

Ishmael teaches captivity which he has been in his whole life and has mastered. When Bantam Books first published 'Ishmael,' a cult was born. Ishmael Summary David Quinns book Ishmael is a fiction book with sobering relevance to the world we live in today and the direction it is going. In Ishmael Daniel Quinn sets the idea of having to think differently by having the book being told my a man whos teacher is a talking Gorilla.

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