Daniel Quinn - Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Pros: simple and direct in style, yet very powerful and stimulating work

Cons: ,,,,,

Review: "Beyond Civilization," the latest and, in many ways, most powerful work from writer/philosopher Daniel Quinn, is the first Great Book of the new millennium. In this latest and stunningly provocative work Mr. Quinn has brought into sharp focus...

Pros: use of parable simplicity, easy to quote

Cons: dances around hard questions. Misinterpretes tribal history

Review: Daniel Quinn had intended this book as a "Manual of change" for those who have been inspired/outraged/changed by his other books (e.g. ishmael) But in this book of one page essays, He merely provokes thought. Before this book I never had...

Pros: WAY out of the box---

Cons: Ecological doom and gloom---

The Bottom Line: Read this and Quinn's other books, and you will be convinced there really are some who long for a return to the cave!!

Review: (This is a repost intended to support my musing about political rhetoric) Mr. Quinn would have liked my brother-in-law. Fifty years ago he often told us of his idea of the “good life”---a tarpaper shack in the woods, where he could hunt, fish ...

Pros: It'll make you think enough to question the status quo.

Cons: It might make you think enough to question it.

Review: In "Beyond Civilization," Quinn steps across the line from allegory and storytelling through fiction, and into the realm of non-fiction reality. While his novels "Ishmael," "The Story of B," and "My Ishmael" made...