Has anyone here read Ishmael?

wvueers1
wvueers1 Phoenix, AZ Posts: 61
edited December 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
????

Great book.
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  • seven roses34
    seven roses34 Posts: 19
    I read it once, a long, long time ago.

    You ever see the movie? If so, what'd you think of it?

    Speaking of things read, did you read whatever Jeff was reading around that same time? I been trying to remember wtf it was called. All I can remember is it was Russian, or the author was Russian. And there was a talking cat. A black talking cat.
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  • KayentaCoffee
    KayentaCoffee Posts: 78
    The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
    that's the moss from the aforementioned verse...
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,049
    I've read both of them. I liked Ishmael more, but The Master and Margarita is an interesting book too. I need to revisit those two soon. I'm desperately searching for Tahar Ben Jelloun's Moha Le Fou, Moha Le Sage in English or Greek, but until today rien.
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    Yeah, I really liked it, but it was a long time ago.. Don't remember all of it.

    (There's a movie?)
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,451
    I read both too. I LOVE The Master and Margarita. Ishmael was great too, but I was more impressed with MM. Good stuff!
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    read it years ago. might need to dust it off and re-read it sometime soon.
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  • seven roses34
    seven roses34 Posts: 19
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    Yeah, I really liked it, but it was a long time ago.. Don't remember all of it.

    (There's a movie?)

    Yeah, it had Cuba Gooding Jr. and Anthony Hopkins in it.

    IMDB tells me it wasn't called Ishmael but rather Instinct. I remember it seemed to have the same concepts of the book but the plot was wildly different because, well, the plot in the book would be hard or impossible to execute in a movie. If I remember the book right, wasn't it just a lot of sitting around and basically staring at a gorilla? If you were to look at what was happening externally, anyway. So to show the same internal movement in an external way - there's the challenge.
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  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    Need to reread it again. First time went way over my head.
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  • wvueers1
    wvueers1 Phoenix, AZ Posts: 61
    seven roses34 wrote:
    I read it once, a long, long time ago.

    You ever see the movie? If so, what'd you think of it?

    Speaking of things read, did you read whatever Jeff was reading around that same time? I been trying to remember wtf it was called. All I can remember is it was Russian, or the author was Russian. And there was a talking cat. A black talking cat.


    Are you referring to the movie Instinct that was mentioned? Because I couldn't find an Ishmael movie on imdb.
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  • wvueers1
    wvueers1 Phoenix, AZ Posts: 61
    Leezestarr313 wrote:
    I read both too. I LOVE The Master and Margarita. Ishmael was great too, but I was more impressed with MM. Good stuff!

    Thanks. I will check out MM. But right now I starting Dan Quinn's The Story of B. The book he wrote after Ishmael.
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  • seven roses34
    seven roses34 Posts: 19
    wvueers1 wrote:
    seven roses34 wrote:
    I read it once, a long, long time ago.

    You ever see the movie? If so, what'd you think of it?

    Speaking of things read, did you read whatever Jeff was reading around that same time? I been trying to remember wtf it was called. All I can remember is it was Russian, or the author was Russian. And there was a talking cat. A black talking cat.


    Are you referring to the movie Instinct that was mentioned? Because I couldn't find an Ishmael movie on imdb.

    That's the one. I didn't realize until a bit later that the movie wasn't actually called Ishmael.
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    Yes, was decent,

    you have to like gorillas though

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