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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;&quot;Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world.  He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived.&quot;-Howard Zinn&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works &lt;I&gt;A Language Older Than Words&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;The Culture of Make Believe&lt;/I&gt;, &lt;I&gt;Endgame&lt;/I&gt; stands to become Jensen's most influential book. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself. &lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably would have given this book three stars - for being an interesting read. Derrick Jensen calls himself an anti-civilization anarchist. His basic premise is that because we take more out of the earth than we give back to it, our civilization will eventually fail. He is very radical in his vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13997934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Derrick Jensen doesn't seem quite as on top of it in this book - he seems angrier and more tired, and it feels less cohesive. It's like <em>Culture of Make Believe</em> was a heartbreaking knife of a book, and this new one is a giant blunt axe. It is so brutal that it's difficult to get through, even for lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1223443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit, I share this man's sentiment, that we must move to a more natural state of being that is better on the earth. But, I don't agree in killing (allowing naturally the deaths of) billions of people to do it. If we went back to a primitive lifestyle, I would die, most of us would. I don't k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3076754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really struggle with Jensen's concepts. I do agree with him on the subject of the damage our &quot;civilization&quot; is doing on the earth, its wildlife, ecosystems and humans. But he doesn't seem to be able to offer any solutions other than &quot;go back to the hunter-gatherer life-style&quot;. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17681212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nothing else I`ve read has ever made me so generally fired up, at least not since I was 15 or so.  I read it while I was working long days doing construction, which I don`t know anything about and am terrible at, so busting my thumbs with hammers and startling myself with the nail gun and trying not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55774856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jensen gets a ton of credit from me just having the balls (or ovaries, as he would qualify) to write this stuff.  It is indeed a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the psychopathology of our civilization, perhaps the best I've read.  He provides convincing arguments with such precision that it i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70464398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book describes every major aspect that is the error of civilization. Derek Jensen does a great job of laying out the destructive culture of civilization and he halts all reasoning for its continued existence. Through many examples he draws a picture of how civilization is fucking us and our wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44109426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jensen's writing style is repetitive and perhaps mildly obnoxious. however, Endgame gets a good rating by virtue of the ideas therein. it's the first anti-civ book i've read in years and looking past its iconic position among anarcho-primitivists (which tends to be offputting), it remains a point we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15063835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A guy who really does not care about either society or science is telling people to smash things as soon as they think that they won't regret it. Great, that's exactly what we need, Innit?<br/><br/>Another most fundamental mistake he makes is one he shares with...pretty much every half-arsed ecolo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79786957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book that everyone in the USA should read. Our culture of greed has already caused many plants and animals to go extinct. How many more before it is too much? How long do we have to wait for something to change? Is pacifism really gonna get us there? Many questions that no one really ever da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80704794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While not as concise as could be, this is a must read for all civilized humans alive at this moment on Earth.  I thought I was pretty aware of what was up in the world, and how I wanted to live in it and this book totally blew my mind, lots of times, heh.<br/><br/>In the first pages, Derrick Jense...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60352622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the book to be entertaining and provocative.  Jensen's style of writing is conversational, which makes it an easy read, but also left me wishing he had delved a little more seriously into some of the topics rather than just repeatedly making fun of those who disagree with him (as entertainin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46821985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a point, about half way through <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3629529.Sameness_and_Difference_Problems_and_Potentials_in_South_African_Civil_Society_Cultural_Heritage_and_Contemporary_Change_Series_II_Africa_Vol_6_" title="Sameness and Difference  Problems and Potentials in South African Civil Society (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. Series II, Africa, Vol. 6) by Bastienne Klein">Endgame: Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization</a>, where I was sick of Derrick Jensen's obsessions. I was tired of reading about dams and salmon and Indians and rape. I was tired of his rambling style, his repetition, and his tendency to let quotations from others...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18798481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book could be paraphrased in 3 statements: Industrial civilization is causing grievous harm to the planet.  This harm has only accelerated.  Therefore, all of civilization should be destroyed.<br/><br/>Pretty strong conclusion, right?  I agree with Derrick Jensen's first two statements but st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14316684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To paraphrase: &quot;Do what you know. If you know how to teach kids to love themselves, work in a school. If you know explosives, go take out a dam.&quot;<br/><br/>Basically, he argues for the dismantling of civilization because it cannot sustain itself. &quot;Love does not imply pacifism.&quot; I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47178053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There Derrick Jensen goes, scaring the crap out of me.  This is an important work, especially for those who want to better understand how and why history has played out in this way.  While reading it my fingernails and sleep schedule suffered, but I feel I had to get through it to at least bear witn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46787602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Woah. Made me ask myself a lot of uncomfortable questions.... the part about Buddhism is pretty amazing and hard to argue with (religions have been used to keep the powerless powerless), though Jensen still is fighting a strange battle when it comes to some of his religious views -- he's attacking r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7215960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When anyone starts a book with a whole string of premises or assumptions they should make sure they hold water.  This one lost be at the very beginning because too many of these assumptions were debatable or merely opinion.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite book I've read in a while.  Wonderful job explaining why it is civilization itself that must go for human society to be sustainable. Jensen does a nice job riding a fine line - he's radical and uncompromising, yet does not alienate the reader.  His arguments are very well backed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32084672">more...</a>]]></body>
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