Dancing With Mosquitoes [Paperback]

Theo Grutter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2000

Thought-provoking book that bubbles with creativity as the author contemplates Ecology, Natural Science with more than a pinch of philosophy throw in the mix.

Product Details

• Paperback: 386 pages
• Publisher: Vantage Press; 1st edition (August 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053312977X
• ISBN-13: 978-0533129775
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,328,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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83 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Readers of ISHMAEL will love DANCING WITH MOSQUITOES!, January 10, 2001

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Daniel Quinn (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dancing With Mosquitoes (Paperback)

Running into Theo Grutter's book is like running into Jean Liedloff's Continuum Concept: meeting a mind that has come independently to be in synch with my own. This doesn't mean he's saying things I've said or thought. On the contrary, he continually surprises me with things I haven't said or thought. And he says them well and wittily. Of our frenetic "get ahead" lifestyle that robs our souls to fill our houses with gaudy trinkets: "Is it not the madness of the fool who day after day falls into the same pit, yet is wholly proud to know the trick of how to climb out of it day after day?" Of the congratulation we award ourselves for our humanitarian greatness in the Third World: "A versatile mind might want to scrutinize with an ecologically-minded eye the greatness of our great white jungle doctors. A truly modern mind that thinks also with a third eye placed generations away might then note that this humanitarian greatness nicely exploding our population there can ultimately cast a great shadow over the flora and fauna of the jungle and stop its people from singing and dancing." Composed of very brief essays, this is a book to spend a few minutes with every day, a book for your bedside table. Readers who cherish my work will cherish Dancing with Mosquitoes.

43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compel the reader to think outside the usual parameters, February 7, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dancing With Mosquitoes (Paperback)

Dancing With Mosquitoes: To Liberate The Mind From Humanism -- A Way To Green The Mind records Theo Grutter's patient and persistent attempt to heal himself of such negative emotions as anger, hate, pity, and resentment. Grutter writes about northern waters, tropical seas, and the swamps were he fished for a living, as well as hunting in the taiga. Dancing With Mosquitoes is a compendium of writings that compel the reader to think outside the usual parameters of humanism and is highly recommended reading for students of philosophy, readers in search of a better and more personally fulfilling way to live, men in need of anger management, and anyone with an interest in alternative approaches to life and living.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "A sip of weirdness a day may keep the monotony away.", June 9, 2005

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Golden Mean (Athens, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dancing With Mosquitoes (Paperback)

Do not be fooled by the "customers who bought this book..." comparisons above. This book is only psycho-spiritual in an ancillary (though not unimportant) way. It is a staggering collection of extended aphorisms that examines and challenges our individual and collective sense of self. But this does not capture it. It is also poetry -- delightful not only for its ideas, but also for its language. Here we have a man standing on his own, actively divorcing himself from external philosophies, and looking about. The book is a process, not the record of a process. If you will wade out into it and follow the often strange train of Grutter's thinking, you will become part of the process. Highly recommended. Really excellent. It is not simply another "good" book. It is something special.