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Which one got a reply?
by rjeli 9y ago
Which one got a reply?
- KGIII 9y agoIshmael. The reply was more about the note that I'd left than the book itself. Though, they thanked me for the book and felt that it'd be something they might appreciate later in life. They said that it was too deep for them and they weren't able to understand it all. I replied and told them that I'd read it multiple times, at different stages in life, and that I'd not fully understood it either - that I took something new away with each reading.
- westoncb 9y agoWell, I looked up some reviews on Ishmael because of this discussion, and it doesn't seem quite like what I'm looking for at the moment, but it did cause me to stumble onto "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" which I'm now thinking of picking up. I wonder if anyone here has opinions on it...
- KGIII 9y agoI'll say that Ishmael is something that is a bit different every time I read it. No, obviously the words are the same every time. But, each time, I take something different away. I think that only the first time did I take away what the author intended. It's not the book that is what I always take away, but what I think about while reading the book. It's not just what it says, but what it doesn't say. I don't even totally agree with the various conclusions and note some logical flaws. But, it inspires me to think, to be introspective, and to look at things a little differently than I had before. I can't really review the book anymore. I probably could have reviewed it when I first read it. I might have been able to review it after each reading, but they'd have been different reviews every time. Then again, I suppose this is a bit of a review...
- japano1se 9y agoI've been reading "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" recently; it's very good, especially if you enjoy mythology or heroic fiction in general. Not sure I agree with the psychoanalytic stuff in it, though.
- codeulike 9y agoIshmael is well worth reading even if you aren't persuaded by it
- bcbrown 9y agoI greatly enjoyed The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Reading it caused me to buy collections of folk tales from several different cultures.