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Today, I finished reading the fourth Daniel Quinn book of this summer. I started with Ishmael, followed a couple weeks later by My Ishmael, then Beyond Civilization, and wrapping up with Providence. He has other works, most notably The Story of B, which is quite good, but this may be it for me for this reading season ( Read more... )

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"The Story of B" is a novel written by Daniel Quinn regarding the ultimate flaw of our culture. Quinn defines our culture is that which has adopted "totalitarian agriculture". This form of agriculture obliterated all former culture, which had lived sustainably as part of nature. Now, with peak oil upon us, the goal of finding the secrets to a ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Daniel Quinn's famous novel "Ishmael". The book is a mind walk back into the past to find the solution to our current problems. Quinn suggests several reasons on how things got this way. After reading, it is proper that a summary be in order ( Read more... )