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The Book of the Damned Paperback – 28 April 2014

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The book for which I'm best known, Ishmael, came into being over a twelve-year period, beginning in 1979. It wasn't work on a single book. Rather, it was work on different versions of what eventually became a single book: Ishmael, the eighth version and the only one in which the teacher Ishmael appears. When I started writing The Book of the Damned in 1981, I was sure I'd found the book I was born to write. The versions that came before had been like rainy days with moments of sunshine. THIS was a thunderstorm, and the lines crossed my pages like flashes of lightning. When, after a few thousand words I came to a clear climax, I said, "This MUST be seen," so I put Part One into print. Parts Two and Three followed, and I began searching for the switch that would turn on Part Four . . . but it just wasn't there. I clung to it for a long time after issuing the first three parts, desperately hoping to find a way to produce additional parts that would bring it to the conclusion I knew was "out there." What I'd done was terrific-and complete in its own way-but at last I faced the fact that the whole thing just couldn't be done in lightning strikes . . . Another ten years passed before I found the way, a completely different way . . . in Ishmael, which was the embodiment of my message, providing the foundation for the clarifications, amplifications, and extensions still to come. But publishing The Book of the Damned had been no mistake. It deserved to be published, and it still does. Those lightning strikes illuminate an apocalyptic landscape never seen before-or after, in any of my later books (including Ishmael).

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Paperback : 88 pages

ISBN-10 : 1499149999

ISBN-13 : 978-1499149999

Dimensions : 12.85 x 0.51 x 19.84 cm

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (28 April 2014)

Language: : English

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Little Eddie
Nothing new here
Reviewed in the United States on 24 September 2019
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Before there were gods was the dao or Tao . For every inside is an outside. Every front has a back.
If you understand things are just as they are.
If you do not understand things are just as they are.
Alan Watts taught this long before Daniel Quinn in a lot less words.
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Kate Winner
Quinn makes perfect sense to me.
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I am not really objective about this book; it struck a deep chord for me. You will love it, or you will struggle with it. But if it does not cause you to think about this world and how it all fits together, you're dead already and may as well lie down.
I think one must be willing to embrace a very broad perspective...or, at least, want to embrace... I would wish that everyone would read this; but most would just pat me on the head (that phrase will become clear if you read the book).
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fran
Great book
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All of Quinn's books are worth reading,this one was better than some. Nothing compares to Ishmael, My Ishmael and The Story of B but so far I have not read any of his books that were not worthwhile.
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My new favorite author.
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Excellent concept and a good read.
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wgG
Nothing New but a quick read for fans
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If you've read Quinn's Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael or Beyond Civilization (which you probably have if you're considering purchasing this) nothing new is introduced in this work. But for the Quinn fan it's worth your time and money to support the influential author. Plus, it serves as a decent summary of his views… kind of a Cliff's Notes of Ishmael & B
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