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Summary: A small gem
Review: It doesn't look like much a skinny little book. The copy I have has the picture of the blue feather on the cover which always catches my eye.
Actually just thinking about it, it is time to take the book back down off the shelf and re-read it again.
This a book to pick up when times are tough or when you need a new take on life. Or just a reminder that you are the one writing this story and you chose what happens next.
This is a good story and at the same time a constant source of wonder and inspiration. It is a book you will quote at people until you irrate them and then you will lend them you copy and have to beg to get it back.
A joy a wonder a must read. Not so much a book as a well loved friend who happens to have bindings!!!
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Summary: Just wanted to add my "10" ...amen.
Review: It helped me through high school, college, job searching, and the death of a good friend. And it's still fun to read "just because!"
THANK YOU, RICHARD BACH, for doing what you hate and writing this book for us.
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Summary: Easily the best book on Life I've ever read.
Review: Have you ever wondered why there is pain, death and tragedy in the world? Or for that matter, why there is joy, life and triumph? Richard Bach's "Illusions" provides a grand starting point for all those seeking to take off on their own voyage into the nature of "deep reality".
This tale of the chance meeting of two barnstorming pilots and their discussions on the true nature of the lives we lead answers many of the nagging questions we are all beset by from time to time.
The story on its surface is wonderfully entertaining. The insights it contains are very compelling. Even if you don't agree with them, they will start you thinking in a positive way and in a positive direction on your own experience.
This is clearly a book to add to your personal library. Enjoy!
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Summary: Magic is real...
Review: Richard Bach's "Illusions" is to the soul what a good night's sleep is to the body or what a rousing thunderstorm is to the land. What starts out as cluttered and confused drops away and what is left is a sense of peace and clarity. I first read this book when I had first struck out on my own. I am, by nature, rather dark and cynical, perhaps even vaguely sociopathic. The book, itself, did not turn my life around, but it very much made me realize that the power to change my life was in my own hands and that it is much easier to let go of the things that made me angry or sad. I gave a copy of the book to a new friend who was even angrier than I was. It quite blew him away. That was over 15 years ago - we've been married for over 11 years - and whenever either one of us starts to feel overwhelmed, the "doctor" prescribes a reading of "Illusions." I also regularly recommend it to people at work when tasks seem unsurmountable. The language of this work makes it accessible to anyone, although the handwritten portions are sometimes a little difficult to read ;-
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Summary: One of the Must-Read books of our Age.
Review: Illusions can be read on a number of levels, from the simple, once-over-lightly "nice yarn" (for it is an easy and fun book to read), through to realisation that there are some profound underlying messages throughout the story. For those who have read it lightly:- read it again, but let "Richard" and "Donald" be two aspects of your own character: one of "normal" scepticism and doubt; the other of unbounded faith and love.
As a long-time counsellor, I have recommended and given away innumerable copies of this book, as well as Bach's "Jonathon Livingstone Seagull", and Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet". All three have proved excellent tools for people beginning their uniquely solitary journey of self-discovery, and yet continue to bring encouragement and delight to those who have been journeying for many years.
No matter what level you choose to read it on - it's always fun, and wonderfully stimulating for the imagination with its concise, clear imagery
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Summary: Simple wonders caught between book covers...
Review: When I first saw this book, it was a stormy afternoon in a small-town bookstore, and I was looking for a gift to get my beloved uncle and mentor. Illusions caught my eye. I gave it to him, and he urged me to read it as well. I took the novel home and kept it in my closet, and forgot all about it. Until one day it came screaming at me, begging me to be read. I read it. No, I devoured it. This book has made the most impact on my life. It literally shaped my future. The questions it brings forth, and the answers it supplies, gently tear at your soul and reconstruct your being. The wonderful simplicity, the gut wrenching suspense, and the way the author seems to finish it off, somehow find their way into your heart, and I know I'll never forget it. You must read it. It is, by far, a masterpiece beyond words
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Summary: A good book to carry in your backpack, or leave at bedside.
Review: Richard Bach at his best. This book makes (or lets) one realize that life is not always what it seems. I would recommend this book to anyone who is still breathing
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Summary: There are no words to describe my love for this masterpiece.
Review: I was given this book by my mother at 16 years old and told to read it. It is, and will continue to be, perfection and a book I feel lost without.
If you have to read one book in your life make it this one. If you believe in God or not it really doesn't matter. The amount you will learn about friendship and percieved reality is a lesson we could all do with.
A close second is Johnathan Seagul but thats another story
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Summary: To Free or not to Free
Review: Bach is at his best with this modern-day "Holy Book" written as an allegory with two barnstorming pilots. Bach himself becomes the mesmerized "disciple" of a Messiah incarnated in today's world. Through trial and error, skepticism and wonder; Bach learns to be free of mortal barriers. Vividly described passages let the reader imagine what it would be like to defy phyical boundaries and to truly be free of what the Messiah shows are simply "imagined realities," ie ILLUSIONS. The book is laced with imaginative and thought-provoking quotes from what Bach calls,"The Messiah's Handbook". It is a book within a book and is an excellent piece of literature by itself. This accounts for the book getting repeated readings. "ILLUSIONS" is a layman's way to approach religion, philosophy and metaphysics; thus its massive appeal. In a time when more and more Americans are turning away from organized religions, "ILLUSIONS" is a new and unconventional way of relating to God, and a refreshing breath of fresh spiritual air
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Summary: Men Discussing God and Having Fun too.
Review: Illusions by Richard Bach is the kind if book that your either getting nothing out of, or walk away from changed. I first read Illusions during High School, and NO book effected my way of thinking about life and my relationship with God. To read the story of two guys barnstorming around the wheat fields of the Midwest, and their adventures along to way is enough alone to make it enjoyable. To scartch beneath this book and to go back to the story again and again after years or months, makes it a magic book. I return to it's pages time after time in order to restore my relationship with God and the magic of life that this book reminds of that exists, If you enjoy this book I would also recommend an earlier book that had an equal effect (Nothing by Chance
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