Life changing (Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach)

Member Name: mljsutton

Product:	Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Date:	25/11/00 (294 review reads)
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Advantages: Uplifting, inspiring

Disadvantages: none

I first read JLS when I was about 14 or 15 years old. It was on the recommendation of a friend that I got to hear of it. He said it was one of the most awe inspiring books he had ever come across. Well as I was always out to prove him wrong it decided to read it.

At that age I seldom read at all, but I managed to read the whole book in one day. It really did change my perception of everything. It also gave me the will to go out and try things that I might not have ever considred.


It is a short book, but I would encourage everyone to read it. It is espcially good if you are feeling low or are not "one of the crowd."

"Update"

I guess I posted this opinion a little early, sorry.

As a life changer this is the book that did it for me. The story follows the life of a "rogue" seagull, who whats more than the normal life others follow. He starts to investigate flying and takes it past the limits his elders would consider safe or worhwhile. He progresess until he feels that in his physical incantation nothing furtheer can be gained.

The only way he can progress is to go to a higher "spiritual" plain.

This gave me the desire to go for it and be more than those around me felt I could manage. I was cosidered to be one of those who would amount to not a lot. Well I kept those thoughts alive from JLS and have fianlly, although a little later than I wanted, to implement good values and have managed to soar higher than my family would have expected.

J Bach has, through this book, manged to change several lives as I use this message as part of my teaching to KS2 children. Not all get the message I am trying to put accross, but if it only changes one life, well what worth can you put to that?

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