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  <title><![CDATA[My Ishmael]]></title>
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  <default_description>Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn's &lt;b&gt;Ishmael&lt;/b&gt; is a bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement.&#160;&#160;Now Quinn presents an extraordinary sequel, a companion novel so startlingly original that even Ishmael's most faithful readers will not predict its outcome....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with &quot;an earnest desire to save the world,&quot; he does not expect a child to answer him.&#160;&#160;But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael's reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student.&#160;&#160;Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax--nor can he hope for the same outcome.&#160;&#160;But young Julie proves that she is ready to forge her own spiritual path--and arrive at her own destination.&#160;&#160;And when the time comes to choose a pupil to carry out his greatest mission yet, Ishmael makes a daring decision--a choice that just might change the world.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Daniel Quinn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My Ishmael is, of course, the sequel to Daniel Quinn's novel Ishmael. This book focuses on much the same subject matter as the first book. Namely, that the agricultural revolution gave rise over time to the modern-day Taker culture. With this rise the Taker's put forth the attitude that they were in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8775767">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 27 06:41:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not that I didn't like this book.  I did.  But, instead of writing this book in a form which uses dialogue between the characters, Quinn should have simply written a discourse on his beliefs of the world.  While his theories and ideas were extremely interesting, the dialogue became tiresome ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/910596">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 12 18:37:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 19 21:57:33 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hippie grocery store clerk suggested this to me.  That should have warned me off right there.  From her breathlessly enthusiastic description of a psychic gorilla with The Secrets to Existence, I erroneously thought it would be a playful, Tom Robbins-esque lysergic carnival ride.<br/><br/>That i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42850060">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Ishmael and I would highly recommend that book to anyone and everyone, but My Ishmael turned out highly disappointing.  Quinn tries to convey many similar ideas as in Ishmael, but in this book, Ishmael's lessons are targeted to a twelve-year-old girl.  Being very careful not to wantonly dism...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68836482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75694093">
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 25 13:56:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 25 14:00:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three stars is too much if judging the story and writing, nowhere near enough if judging the ideology and philosophical content. The author should have written a 30 page article instead of stretching his fascinating points about the educational, work-related, political, etc., systems into a long &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75694093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41202450">
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    <review id="14528420">
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    <body><![CDATA[More of the message. My Ishmael takes place in parallel with Ishmael, but focuses on his teachings with a 12 year-old girl. I didn't place a five-star rating here mainly because the lesson is essentially<br/>the same. But the content is on a different slant, since, as Ishmael points out, everyone w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14528420">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't love this book...but I didn't hate it either. It was very thought-provoking.  The beginning was very confusing for me and maybe that is because I haven't read Ishmael before reading this one. I hated how the girl, Julie, just &quot;happened&quot; to read a newspaper advertisement to be a pu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17451450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28230300">
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    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone looking to save the world, or at least their tiny space in it.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 27 18:31:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My Ishmael is a continuation of Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael. Although it acts as a companion piece, it is not necessary to read the series in any particular order. I prefer My Ishmael to its predecessor because the main character, (other than the telepathic gorilla), is a young girl and, as I read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28230300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70176437">
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    <body><![CDATA[I like it better then the first one for some reason. I didn't even finish the first one. I do recommend this one to folks. I'm feeling much better about this world's potential now. ]]></body>
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    <review id="62328246">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[liked this better than the prequel.. felt more like a novel and less like a manual.. also enjoyed the voice of the narrator a little better this time round.. i definitely recommend this!]]></body>
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    <review id="39443277">
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another brilliant take...I think it could be even better than the first...the way they describe everything...and make it so crystal clear for the understanding...magnifico!]]></body>
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    <review id="39347931">
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    <body><![CDATA[The conclusion of the trilogy really did seem to wrap things up to me.  The first two books had nudged me into environmentalism but this book nudged me into social justice.]]></body>
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    <review id="49277912">
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    <body><![CDATA[All the Ishmael related books give the same message; this one just tailors it to a 14 year old girl.  Good articulation about concentrations of power around the world.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="66011594">
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    <body><![CDATA[As I recall, seemed mostly like a rehash of Ishmael, with some plotlines to enhance the environmental issues. Otherwise the same: yokel finds Ishmael, learns a lot.]]></body>
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    <review id="65942482">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Daniel Quinn wrote My Ishmael to make his views expressed in Ishmael clearer.  Another novel meant to teach us about the human race and its interaction  with the world.]]></body>
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    <review id="43649325">
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 19 19:07:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A disappointing shadow to the original, Ishmael.  If memory serves, this book did little to advance the conversation that was put forward in the first book.]]></body>
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    <review id="76177811">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jerri]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Also one of my top, top ten for years. Another book that changed the way I see the world and the way I exist in the world. Highly, highly recommended.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Daniel Quinn's writing changed the way I view the world and humanity.  If you've ever wondered 'if we took a wrong turn along the way', read Daniel Quinn.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This and the book Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, really fit together very nicely to expand on the philosophy.  I don't think it matters which one you read first.  Both books are thinly disguised fiction, and in reality they are philosophy books.  Ishmael is a gorilla teacher.  Yes, a gorilla who teaches ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7537618">more...</a>]]></body>
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