Mark Sundeen retells Daniel Suelo's many adventures with vivid detail and incredulous mirth, letting the reader decide if he is a Prophet for our times or just a highly amusing bum. So the stories in this book are familiar and dear to me. Daniel and I were roommates at the University of Colorado 25 years ago and we have remained close ever since, living in the same tiny town in the desert. It is an honor to be called "Daniel's best friend" in this gripping book about him that describes how he learned to live abundantly by rejecting our cultural beliefs about money. The Man Who Quit Money inspires us to imagine how we might live better. By retracing the surprising path and guiding philosophy that led Suelo from an idealistic childhood through youthful disillusionment to his radical reinvention of "the good life," Sundeen raises provocative and riveting questions about the decisions we all make-by default or by design-about how we live. Yet he manages to amply fulfill not only the basic human needs-for shelter, food, and warmth-but, to an enviable degree, the universal desires for companionship, purpose, and spiritual engagement. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild foods and gourmet discards. Suelo doesn't pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. The Man Who Quit Money is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since. In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth.
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