Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach Reviews

Once in a while, someone passes on a book for you to read - and it ends up as one of your all-time favourites. So it is with Jonathon Livingston Seagull. From the very first page, I was hooked on the story of Jonathon, the seagull who wants to be more than just one of the flock, who has dreams of other things. This is one of those books ...  Read the complete review

I remember reading this book many moons ago. It simply blew me away on a lot of levels and after reading this I became a firm fan of Richard Bach's other work. At first glance it appears simplistic enough...Jonathon is one of many seagulls, living an everyday existence of eating fish and obeying the 'elders' of the ...  Read the complete review

Seagulls are not my favourite animals – too much noise and too much sh*t. There’s just one exception to my no-seagull rule. It’s Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, one of my favourite books of all time. It's available from Amazon at £4.79 new and £2.29 used. ***And so to the plot*** Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a seagull ...  Read the complete review

I said I would not dare to write a book review. Like Jonathan I have dared, and can only hope that to a small degree I have succeeded. I'm sure you'll let me know if I should go back to dogs and yoghurt. :-) When a way of life has always been; when the limitations of a culture have been accepted as the norm by all the ...  Read the complete review

The story is about a seagull called Jonathan who becomes bored with his mundane life of basic flying manoevers and decides to try loop the loops and 360 turns at high speed. All his seagul friends laugh at him and he becomes an outcast when he fails to stop spending more time flying than fishing. The story then goes on to say how he finds ...  Read the complete review

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is simultaneously simple and profound. Only 90 - odd pages long, yet Bach has managed to create a powerful message. He opens up doors to his readers, which they are able to walk through long after they have finished reading. This book is about life and wonderment, questions and revelations, curiosity and stiving for ...  Read the complete review

This book travels with me whenever I go off to work overseas and in fact at this moment is sitting on a Greek island awaiting my return next summer. I first read it over 20 years ago, have read it many times since and it never loses its magic for me! Being a bit of a nomad and a free spirit, I have worked abroad quite often over the ...  Read the complete review

This little book (it's not very long) will really make you think. It's uplifting and inspiring, yet so very simple. Jonathan Livingston Seagull doesn't want to be confined by other people's rules. He knows there are rules about flying and that they are there for safety reasons but he is determined to break the barriers. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

As has already been stated in other opinions, this is about a seagull. A seagull that is different from the other gulls....... one who is not content just to fall in with what every other gull is doing because that's the way it's always been done...... a gull who is willing to take risks for personal growth.... a gull aiming to ...  Read the complete review

A truly wonderful and inspiring book, providing a totally unique way of looking at life. In brief the A short book full of images follows the life of a seagull. A seagull, who wants more out of life than simply following the flock and catching fish. He wants to learn how to fly higher and higher and faster and faster. He wants to be the best he ...  Read the complete review