read "Ishmael"

Done!

Past p.150! Fantastic brain food so far, though I’m not sure how much I agree with the author’s perspective – then I question myself and wonder how far Mother Culture has gotten into my own psyche.

Made a hefty dent on this book today. I’m definitely past page 100, though I’m currently unaware of the exact count. Whatever it is, the book isn’t very long.

I’m glad I set this goal for myself. I made a deadline to read it by April 18th, 2009 because it’s the last day of spring break. If I don’t make it on time I have to smoke a cigarette (a three-year habit I quit last year, and now I despise it (for myself)).

If I have just two or three more “thirty-minute sessions” – quotation marks because those always stretch into an hour or two – I’ll be totally set. This won’t be too difficult.

I really loved this book. It is one of those rare bookes that is vell written and REALLY makes you start thinking about your world.

I don’t know what to think about it yet. The ideas brought up are so different from what we are used to hearing, that it is taking me a little longer to determine what I think about it. I did love the book though. I’ll figure it out someday.

I am already on page 89 and the night is still young (sort of). It is really intriguing.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say this book will most certainly change your life. The basic thing this book can provide to you is an interesting perspective on humankind and how things came to be this way. Its hard to ignore the points brought up about the human way of existing above and beyond the law of the community of life and the limits of competition. The book takes a certain negative outlook towards the way in which current society acts (against nature) but theres no reason to get bent out of shape about it. Regardless of the anthropological foundations and interpretations the story purports, if you are level headed you will realize this book for what it is: another signpost along the path, choose to read it or not, because there’s thousands of ways to get to the same end.

This book may not change your life, but it will change the way you look at life! Should be on everyone’s must read list.

From the first few pages, it grabs you, forces you to listen.
You will put the book down, look around you, and realize you’ve been blind.
It’s an amazing book and it absolutely ended up changing my life and the ways I was living.