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    <body><![CDATA[some short tales omitted from Ishmael during the process of writing the final version... sort of like the 'deleted scenes' you get on dvds these days.  Adam teaches his son Abel about living in harmony with the world through a series of stories within these stories. (not the biblical Adam, an early ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15031526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tales of Adam is a really quick read.  Written a little like Aesop's Fables. It is a story about a father teaching his son about the physical and spiritual world.   A direct moral in each chapter.  It was a littletoo boring and a little too full of morals for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastic book! Great for young kids.  Teaches kids some crucial things (human culture and how we got to this point) in a subtle way.  It gets their minds churning.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As far as Quinn's books go, I wasn't hugely into this one.  It was a quick read and had some interesting stories in it, but just felt like it was lacking something...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[anything and everything by daniel quinn are must reads for an ecological animist/philosopher]]></body>
    
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