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Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Illusions?
Review: When I first got this book for an online course I'm taking I was a little skeptical about it. Then I mentioned the title to a friend of mine and he whole heartedly recommended to me that I read it.

The book is a very quick read (I finished it in 90 minutes) and enjoyable. When I was done reading, I just sat back and said "Wow". I don't think anyone could read the book and not find a little piece that related to themself in one way or another. I would definitely recommend reading it to anyone - young or old.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Book for anyone
Review: Illusions by Richard Bach was a Great book! It talked of many daily problem solving topics. It had some good quotes in it, even one of my friends who just picked it up to look at it and looked inside read some of the quotes and she said that there were some that really touched her.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One Great Book
Review: I found "Illusions" by Richard Bach to be an excellent book. He see's the world in an entirly different perspective than most people would if they were writing a similar book. I loved how cynical he was at the end, when he closed his book in the same way as he opened it. That makes the book seem like it is a neverending cycle. This book was both inspiring and honest, it makes you want to follow in some of the footsteps that the characters take.
When I first picked up this book, I thought it was going to be a religious novel that would probably bore me. But after the first page I couldn't put it down. I would reccomend everyone read this book if you have a few extra hours to spare. If you don't, your missing out.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Relaxing book on the Illusions of Life
Review: "Illusions" by Richard Bach was a great story. I really enjoyed reading it, and couldn't put it down once I started. It explores a totally new way of looking at life--as seen in the eyes of an automobile mechanic Messiah.

This Messiah, Donald, finds Richard. The two of them fly planes for a living and share many ideas on life. Their conversations are thought provoking, because Donald says that life is an illusion. Donald works miracles--he can heal, make things levitate, make objects appear, etc--and he tries to teach Richard how to do the same things, by simply changing his thought process. If Richard believes it is possible, than it is.

Donald does not want to be a Messiah anymore, and he is making Richard his replacement without Richard realizing it. Donald knows the future, and knows what he has to do to preserve the future. He gives Richard the "Messiah's Handbook," which Richard refers to many times throughout the story. This handbooks is filled with many meaningful quotes and ideas that help Richard when he needs it.

The book, "Illusions" portrays a new way of looking at life. It's the same world, yet different, because the Messiah is a normal automobile mechanic, who heals people and teaches Richard about the Illusions of life, and how he can overcome them.

This is a book that should be read by everyone. It will make the reader think and reflect on their own lives, and gives the reader a sense that there is no true end to anything. There are only new beginnings from endings in this world of Illusions.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Trekking into the Self
Review: Bach is back again with a retelling of his Jonathan Livingston Seagull, this time in the form of a human. The inspiration to be strong, the motivation to be different comes through with even more power. This book is a great permission slip to do what you want to do, be what you want to be. To give yourself the license to follow what may seem to others to be a wild path, but to you seems linear and worthwhile.
It gives me power. Bach gives me flight in Illusions.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Magic
Review: Well this may not have been one of my favorite books I have read but it is a very interesting book! You had to read a couple of pages to actually get into the book. If you are into magic and flying planes then it would be a very good selection to read. I got a little confused everyknow and then but i had to go back and read the page again then i got to the point. But considering it was a book for an educational assignment it was about the best a teacher has ever assigned. Girls would enjoey this book a little more than guys from my point of view.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It May Just Blow Your Mind
Review: This book will strain the intelectual borders of your mind. Some may find it disdurbing, or too fantastic to be believable, but none will walk away without a new view on life.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: poo
Review: give me a break. oooooh....squirt, splat. spiritual poo. inspirational...blah, blah, blah, and gab, gab. disIllusions. Come and find me. I'll poo you. The best self-improvement: to get over self-improvement.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Terrific, Consise, Profound and Captivating
Review: A small book Illusions is a beautiful expression of economy. This book is perfect as it. It flows effortlessly and is packed with wisdom. The story will keep you glued and the ending is powerful. This book is inspirational as are Bach's other books. No this book is not technical, it doesn't give you practical techniques. There are a million other books that do that. This book, as well as JLS, lifts your spirit out of the human dumpster of repetitiveness and connects you to a place where you believe, if only for a moment, that God might exist, that there is a higher purpose for our lives that our lives have some meaning. So me a technical book that can accomplish that.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Don't forget to breathe or you'll die laughing.
Review: Most people who discuss this book with me mention"spiritual" in the first sentence. Those of you who arelikely to cringe, whenever anyone utters the word"spiritual": relax...

This book is HILARIOUS. I meanroll-on-the-floor, laugh-til-you-die FUNNY. The humor is so profoundthat your cheeks will be wracked with pain. I've heard the phrase "too true to be funny" bandied about all my life, but this genius, Richard Bach, creates a story that is so filled with insight from the opening parable to the last message that it's "so true, its hysterical."

So grab this book, get a blue feather, scrape the bugs off your windshield (those of you who still need to), and go swimming in the earth or walking on the sky with Richard Bach's "Illusions".


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