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All the books by Daniel Quinn adapted to cinema and television

Daniel Quinn is known for being the author of the book Ishmael, first published in 1992, which was adapted to cinema by Jon Turteltaub in 1999.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Instinct. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1992 book, Ishmael
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Ishmael
Daniel Quinn, 1992
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Instinct
Jon Turteltaub, 1999

In a high-security facility for the criminally insane, the disturbed anthropologist Ethan Powell is scheduled for evaluation by a talented young psychiatrist named Theo Caulder. Fueled by his ambition and an insatiable thirst for the truth, Caulder will ultimately endanger everything, including his own life, in a courageous effort to comprehend the perplexing behaviors of this lunatic.