Reviews - Ismael: Como o Mundo Veio a Ser o que É

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Ismael: Como o Mundo Veio a Ser o que É

Daniel Quinn

3.91 AVERAGE

mcbeck38's review against another edition

3.0

challenging reflective

tomenns's review against another edition

3.0

informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Not sure how to feel about this book. The author has created a way to argue with himself in the form of a story so as to get his point across. I found myself disagreeing with the spins he put on things and I feel many of the premises are brought forward as foregone conclusions which of course they are not. That said it is worth reading even if just to gain perspective.

moww's review against another edition

4.5

Ishmael is right, but it’s unfortunately unfeasible.

theaudr's review against another edition

5.0

challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

olyflanders's review against another edition

3.75

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

really fun to reread this 14 years later. wonderful anticapitalist deprogramming rhetoric written so plainly it’s hard to argue with

elke_de_echte's review against another edition

4.0

What about a perspective of a gorilla following a Socratic dialogue method to get our not-so-contemporary creation myth revealed? The distance with our own Homo Sapiens’ one seems quintessential to draw out the whole picture… i.e. our own cultural idealism (and how we are blindly fulfilling its goals). Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit is thought-provoking and convincing - although the morale of the story is overtly known. To be reread very soon!