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Summary: Thought-provoking and uplifting
Review: Illusions is inspirational as well as thought-provoking, for Richard Bach has presented messages which illuminate aspects of our lives. Scattered throughout the story of the Messiah and his student are humor, sadness, complexity, and simplicity, all combined to create a book that will lead you to question your limits in life. The quotes in the book are numerous and applicable; I found "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts" to be very insightful for me, for it presents advice that I can apply to my every-day life. Some of the lessons are controversial and some are frustrating, but this nature of the book creates an opportunity for debate and creative thinking. In this way Bach has let us, as readers, become our own teachers as we discover things about ourselves and the world in which we live.
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Summary: This novel is a true handbook to an advanced soul!
Review: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a book I could easily read ten times through and still have more to understand and learn from. The book can be interpreted in infinite ways. But one aspect is for sure, Donald Shimoda is a reluctant messiah. He possesses divine knowledge and power, which unfortunately for his character, people have come to recognize. They flock to him for advice they don't believe they are capable of giving themselves. Shimoda does not, and perhaps cannot, desire to be a glorious messiah. His solution: simply pass his job to another . . . Richard Bach. What he chooses could easily be viewed as the most cowardly decision, but seems to lead him to happiness, as quoted from the novel, ". . .he went his way through the crowds and left them, and he returned to the everyday world of men and machines." Illusions is an excellent book, laced with advice and wisdom. Advice including, "You teach best what you most need to learn." and "Argue with your limitations and sure enough they're yours.", both which stem from a handbook, given to messiahs to cultivate an advanced soul. This novel is truely a handbook not only to the messiah, but to all who read it. Although at times, Illusions was difficult for me to fully grasp, it opens up a new world of ideas to me; the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. The writing itself, though not complicated, I sometimes was forced to read over in order to understand. However, Mr. Bach does connect the reader with the characters and incorporates enough emotion so that they become real, and thus the characters are more easy to relate to. I recommend Illusions to anyone from the casual reader searching for a good read to someone searching for a new outlook on life.
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Summary: Illusions touches the heart of the reader
Review: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah By: Richard Bach Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah starts off with a man, named Richard, who is flying to make money. While flying on day he goes over a field and sees a plane, so he decides to go talk to the pilot of the plane because flying is a lonely way to live. What Richard does not know at that time is that meeting this man is going to change his whole life, by the way he will see things and how he will realize that everything he sees may not be always what they appear to be. In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard as well as the reader, is taken on a life learned lesson that will help them, if they chose to use what they have learned, in making their lives more complete. In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, there are many quotes that will touch the heart of the reader. One quote that I really liked was, "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintance will know you in a thousand years." This quote is so real and true in everyway. I hope that everyone will sometime in his or her life is able to read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, because it is such a good book and sends out a good message to the reader.
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Summary: Trueth has never been speaking as clearly as this bood did
Review: I've passed this bood to as many friends as I have
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Summary: One of my favorite all-time
Review: This book is filled with insights, scattered through the pages and ripe for picking during the second and third and fourth reading.....Easily Richard's finest work, and while more down to earth (?) than Seagull, it challenges the way we look at our selves and our lives even more directly.
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Summary: This story will change you!
Review: I first read this bok when it first appeared in 1977. I thought it was an interestingand enjoyable story, put it away, and promptly forgot about it. Then, several years later, some shattering events occured in my life that made me seriously consider whetherlife was even worth living. I rediscovered ILLUSIONS in my closet and re-read it, and it, along with the Jane Roberts books I discovered about the same time, totally changed the way I view my life, and the "nature of reality". (Incidentally, Jane Roberts and Richard Bach were friends!). I still can't believe that I missed the point of this story when I first read it-I guess, I just wasn't ready for the message-until I REALLY needed to hear it.
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Summary: Wonderful writer.
Review: For all of you out there who believe that this is New Age crap, that's your opinion. But the fact that Richard Bach is a great writer and he phrases everything just so that you understand it, is not something you can deny. First of all, this is not New Age. It's nothing so unreal or unusual, it's just that you high-speak only-terribly-complicated book readers don't like the fact that he doesn't use sentences in which there is double or triple meaning. That's fine. But I still think that this is great. Just great.
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Summary: Mystical and Magical
Review: Richard Bach as author and as the featured character brings the reader into the story as though they were right there. The phylosophy and thought provoking concepts of this book will stay with you long after having read the book. Richard Bach has in this one book revealed a level of consciousness that everyone should strive for. Illusions - as well as the other books by this author are books that you will give as gifts and insist that your friends read them. There is a mystical and magical power within the pages of this book.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: This was the most touching, funny, wonderful book I have read in a long time. I couldn't put it down. I liked it so much, I read it to my sister, who loved it just as much. I would suggest this book to anyone who loves a good story and has ever thought about the deeper things in life.
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Summary: You will either love it or hate it...
Review: and I loved it. Richard Bach is inspirational, and provides a meaningful tale that inspires and frees the spirit. If you are at a certain point in your life where you are looking for inspiraation and answers to unknown questions, this is a great book. If you are not at that point you will find it new age pop religious babble. It is a 5 star book for some, and a 1 star book for others, but why take the chance, read it. At worst you spent a few hours reading, is that so bad?
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