About this title: The sequel to Quinn's earlier novel, "Ishmael", which won Ted Turner's $500,000 prize for a work of fiction that proposed the best solution to the problems of today's world. This book, like its predecessor, is essentially a lecture, by a wise and compassionate gorilla, on how to live.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1998-10-06
ISBN-13:9780553379655ISBN:0553379658
Description: Very Good. Cover has minor rubbing, marking, and lite corner/edge wear. Pages are very clean and neat, with lite tanning. Nice reading copy.1998 Edition, Softcover. (I) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553106367ISBN:0553106368
Description: Very Good in Very Good- jacket. Slight spine lean, edgewear to the jacket worst at spine extremities, a few smudges to the rear jacket panel, and other light shopwear. read more
Description: Very Good. 0553106368 24657 PB: spine smooth, text clean, cover has slight shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m ai l. wt1lbpf. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780553379655ISBN:0553379658
Description: Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have had little use. The cover has some bumps and scuffs. The corners have been bumped. There is no creasing on the spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780553379655ISBN:0553379658
Description: Very Good Plus. Size: 8vo-7¾"-9¾"; A very tight and clean copy of the book save for a small gift inscription in pen on the inside front cover. VG+++. read more
Edition: Edition Not Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Bantam Books, 1997, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553106367ISBN:0553106368
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Edition Not Stated. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Sequel to the award-winning story "Ishmael" The story of a gorilla on a mission to solve global problems. Light shelf wear. Few page corners creased. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Date Published: 1998-11-01
ISBN-13:9780553379655ISBN:0553379658
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780553379655ISBN:0553379658
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"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 "story" about a talking gorilla who imparts this information to a young girl. It is worth reading one of this author's books to see his philosophical views- in fact, I highly recommend you do- but the story and dialogue are terrible and I have no inclination to read more by him. I think I "get it," and so should everyone, so read it just to make sure you understand how and why the system stinks. Talking gorilla critiques systems of society; good, recommended for its philosophy."
"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."
"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 dismiss a twelve-year-old's capability for such powerful and culturally dissident ideas, I honestly do not think, based on my own experience as a twelve-year-old girl not THAT long ago, that she could process the teachings of Ishmael at all, let alone so effortlessly. The dialogue is also not in the voice of a twelve-year-old girl at all, or any living human you might encounter. It is very dry and stale. These points highly lowered Quinn's authorial authority for me in this text. I stoppped reading halfway through. I'd rather read Ishmael again and not have Quinn's powerful ideas discredited by a shoddy effort to resummarize his previous insights."
"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."
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