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The Story of B
by: Daniel Quinn

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553379013
ISBN: 0553379011
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: December 01, 1997
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: November 03, 1997
Sales Rank: 16449
Studio: Bantam

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The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn's provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Father Jared Osborne--bound by a centuries-old mandate held by his order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--is sent to Europe on a mission to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. The target of Osborne's investigation is an American known only as B. He isn't teaching New Age platitudes or building a fanatical following; instead, he is quietly uncovering the hidden history of our planet, redefining the fall of man, and retracing a path of human spirituality that extends millions of years into the past. From the beginning, Fr. Osborne is stunned, outraged, and awed by the simplicity and profundity of B's teachings. Is B merely a heretic--or is he the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity not with wickedness, but with ideas more alluring than those of traditional religion? With surprising twists and fascinating characters, The Story of B answers this question as it sends readers on an intellectual journey that will forever change the way they view spirituality, human history, and, indeed, the state of our present world.

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- loved it
This was my 2nd time reading B. I'm Catholic and it makes me think seriously.

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- Good story...very preachy
I purchased the Story of B excited to read the continuation of the thought provoking Ishmael. While Ishmael opened the door to new concepts (at least new to me), The Story of B simply reiterated those concepts using a different story with different characters. There was a point in the novel where the magic of the message got lost in redundancy. There was an "I get it, move on" moment for the reader that actually made me consider putting down the book. I felt like the book was written as a brainwashing mechanism to perpetuate the author's point of view. While I understand all written works function to perpetuate a point, the novel came off as pushy and forceful. There were a lot of questions I wished I could ask, that were not explained in the text. The redundancy is explained by the author in the beginning of the novel. The main character "B" explained that he uses redundancy for the same reason people attend ... Read More

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- A necessary tale
Don't miss this one. This deceptively simple tale may be the most profound critique of agricultural civilization that I have ever read. It cuts to the heart of the experiment we began about 10,000 years ago -- the way of life which has come to dominate our planet and which threatens to undo us all. (See Wes Jackson's work, BECOMING NATIVE TO THIS PLACE, Counterpoint, 1996, etc. for an agronomist's perspective on the same issues.) B opens a window on the preceding 3 million years in which humans exactly like us lived, created, dreamed and invented without choosing to dominate the rest of nature, and then indicates a door through which we might exit our failing paradigm. This is the part of history you were never taught in school and might only have inferred from the work of Louis Leakey, Margaret Meade and other students of the "uncivilized" past. The inevitability of farms, cities and nations that is assumed in classic ... Read More

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- Rip Van Wrinkle coming out of his sleep.
I think both books have some truths in it. I am awakened to find there is a nation of people who did fall asleep they lost 10,000 of their history and Quinn has been bold enough to put it in fiction. What a revolution the question is now when the people wake up from the forgettfulness does anyone knows what that will do to the world or will the world already be at the end of its story and those people ascended to the blue ethers from the disaster.
Science is beautiful. Creation is something unseen yet everything manifested is after creation. The thought was the creation. What a mighty good thought it is. Leavers. Leave this place of limited life. A hologram. When one knows that begins must end. They have meet the leavers.....Leavers never began and they will never end.

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