{"product_id":"the-book-of-the-damned-paperback-12","title":"The Book of the Damned - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book for which I'm best known, \u003ci\u003eIshmael, \u003c\/i\u003e came into being over a twelve-year period, beginning in 1979. It wasn't work on a single book. Rather, it was work on different versions of what eventually \u003ci\u003ebecame \u003c\/i\u003e a single book: \u003ci\u003eIshmael, \u003c\/i\u003e the eighth version and the only one in which the teacher Ishmael appears. When I started writing \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Damned \u003c\/i\u003e in 1981, I was sure I'd found the book I was born to write. The versions that came before had been like rainy days with moments of sunshine. THIS was a \u003ci\u003ethunderstorm, \u003c\/i\u003e and the lines crossed my pages like flashes of lightning. When, after a few thousand words I came to a clear climax, I said, \"This MUST be seen,\" so I put Part One into print. Parts Two and Three followed, and I began searching for the switch that would turn on Part Four . . . but it just wasn't there. I clung to it for a long time after issuing the first three parts, desperately hoping to find a way to produce additional parts that would bring it to the conclusion I knew was \"out there.\" What I'd done was terrific-and complete in its own way-but at last I faced the fact that \u003ci\u003ethe whole thing just couldn't be done in lightning strikes . . .\u003c\/i\u003e Another ten years passed before I found the way, a completely different way . . . in \u003ci\u003eIshmael, \u003c\/i\u003e which was the embodiment of my message, providing the foundation for the clarifications, amplifications, and extensions still to come. But publishing \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Damned \u003c\/i\u003e had been no mistake. It deserved to be published, and it still does. Those lightning strikes illuminate an apocalyptic landscape never seen before-or after, in any of my later books (including \u003ci\u003eIshmael).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 7.8 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52725053784371,"sku":"9781499149999","price":16.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Jz-i7UuxcG9781499149999.webp?v=1763700922","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-book-of-the-damned-paperback-12","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}