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Summary: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Review: I thought that this book was great, I enjoyed every thing. I thought this book was also fun to read. To read about a seagull wanting more then just wanting to eat but to fly, fly higher and faster. This book is a really good book for younger children, they can learn from it, like if they want to acomplish something they should go for it. They should do what is exciting to them. This was a good book and I would deffinetly reccomed this book to other people to read.
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Summary: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Review: I thought this book was great, it gave me a new way of looking at seagulls. I liked how Jonathan Seagull went on to a new world to learn more and be with others like him. I could see it all while reading it, it was like I was there flying with him. I know that sounds goffy but thats what I though when I read this book. I thought it was kind of sad and mean how the other seagulls made him an outcast just because he wanted to learn more about flight. This is a good lesson for younger children. That they should follow their dreams. That nothing is worth giving up as long as you belive in your self.
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Summary: Wonderfully inspirational book, whether you are 8 or 80!
Review: This a short and inspiring book with some great photographs of seagulls. A simple tale about a seagull named 'Jonathan Livingston' who did not fit in with the rest of his brood. It will give you a fresh perspective on life each time you read it at different ages. The story is simply told and one can read it as a story of a brave 'bird' or ponder on the tale and discover that it is a reflection of one's own self in the quest for perfection and peace. A good book to give as a gift to a teenager or an equally good gift for an adult.
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Summary: nothing special i think
Review: Not much to say, its simlpe and kinda plain, whatever you can learn from here, you can learn it better maybe by watching a tv series. I personally dont like too corny motivational stories, specially that are so simplisitic, but hey thats just my opinion, many like it, its got a message, it can be fun for you to imagine the same bird flying and flying and flying, and you might just really enjoy it.
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Summary: Spring Cleaning for your Mind
Review: When worldly matters get the best of me and there's way too much "inner chatter" going on in my mind, I dig out this book,
find a comfy spot, unplug the phone and read it through. Nothing works quite like "Jonathan". You will always come away clear, re-charged and ready to face the world. I love this book. Richard Bach is fantastic. I also love "Illusions"....another must-read from this great author. From there, go on to "One" - and on and on.....
ps>> photography in "Jonathan" is also great.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: The book explores your imagination and makes you think for hours what the true meaning of the book is.If you are busy this is a good book for you because it is short but still meaningful.I really love this book.You could read it over and over but never have the same thoughts about it.I would recomend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Good book...but not a "must read"
Review: This book, my manager recommended me to read and he did not even told me the content and moral of the story. He just told me that its a one of the bestselling book in the world. When i started to read, first i found it interesting, but after 2nd chapter I started loosing my interest in the story. I really have no clue why it happened. May be my expctations were bit high, may be my perspective is little different. I would not say that this is the book one must buy and keep it for the lifetime. There are number of books available which convey similar message in a very good way.
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Summary: In fairness, a comprehensive negative review
Review: It appears that most reviewers of this book read it in their youths at a time when their identities were still forming and when they were in craving inspiration and hope to aid their lackluster adolescent existences (keep in mind that adolescence does not necessarily end with the teenage years for oh so many people, as evidenced by some of the reviews). As with most identity-creating experiences most of these individuals are apparently loathe to let go of thier superficial first impressions of this book and in fact have only reinforced its significance with additional readings. One reviewer is so invested in this book's contribution to their selfness they have proudly proclaimed to have read it "over 300 times". Is there any better example of how addiction to that which is comfortable eliminates opportunity for exposure to new ideas (I'm thinking of people who spend their lives reading only the bible). How can anyone get anything out of something when it is virtually the only thing they read. Aren't they curious about what else is out there? Apparently not, and so much the pity. It need not be surprising then that most Amazon.com reviewers of this book have done so long, long after forming their emotionally-fortified opinions of the book so that thier reviews are not really reviews at all, but rather emotional defenses of themselves as those whose very identities were in part formed by this short work. As a result those positive reviews tend to be long and detailed while the negative reviews - obviously written by people didn't get much out the book - tend to be short and lacking any significant detail making them very easy for dismissal by the "loyalists". I on the other hand, at the age of thirty-five, have only just read the book for the very first time. Yes, I admit it is a bit of a surpise. As rediculously simplistic a message that this book contains, barely disguised as serious literature, it is a surprised that my high school didn't assign it as most school readings tended to have such two-dimensional messages (and also tended to swear the student off reading anything for a short time immediately following completion). I, on the other hand, although having obviously heard about the book for years, never crossed paths with a copy for the forty-odd minutes required to snack on its highly-regarded psycho-wisdom. So I came to it as a fully-formed functioning adult, fresh and anew, and this review is therefore in my opinion a more honest appraisal than most that you will read here. My review itself is short: This book would appear to appeal to the same mass of people who religiously watch Oprah and listen to AM radio for clues on how to better live their lives. It is indeed self-help drivel, perhaps the first example of the avalance of so-called inspirational excrement that rolled off the presses in the 1970s and 80s. I'll allow that Richard Bach may have been the first writer to frame the message of "be all that you can be regardless of the obsticles" into an allegorical (read: thinly disguised) format, but that would only excuse the throngs of people who gravitated towards this book when it was first published during the naive, self-indulgent, spiritually-seeking 70s. It explains nothing about the masses who still seem to derive live-altering inspiration from its simplistic story. I don't claim to have an explantation for that. All I am certain of is this: it only takes a quick chanel surf through daytime television - with the popular surplus of JerrySpringerRickiLakeSallyJesseJennyJones et al, alongside the mind-numbing idiocy of the ever-popular soap-opera genre - to understand that there is indeed a very wide audience for this type of simplistic, non-threatening, non-challenging, non-talented, non story. It is harmless, that is true, but it is hardly a contribution to the condition of man. It may appeal to individuals from the inside of a soul-searching crises, but it is also sorely lacking in substance, meaning, and soul. There is much better enriching material available to read. Of those to whom this book has meant so much I can only say: enjoy your lives. But for heaven's sake read some other stuff as well.
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Summary: Don't read it
Review: Says all that is obvious, a guide book for idiots. Renews nothing. A total waste of time (not much but still a waste).
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Summary: A short, sweet, and uplifting book.
Review: I was first introduced to Jonathan Livingston Seagull by one of my friends in high school. Since then I have read it many times and each time I have read it it offers new insights. It is a book that is appropriate for everyone, and I am a believer that everyone will find something to take away from this wonderful book that will apply to his or her life. For all of you that have ever dreamed of flying, it's a must-have book!
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