Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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- ISBN13: 9780743278904
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This is a tale for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules…people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves…people who know there’s more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying privileged and quicker than ever they dreamed.Amazon.com Review
“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight–how to get from shore to food and back again,” writes leader Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. “For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.” Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the tale soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a privileged purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his privileged vision, Jonathan gets the essential payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of like and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations–although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. –Gail Hudson
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I place one star because I figured it would get the attention of all the negative people who disliked this book, and annoy them. Well, that is not the way to make them more pleased but I am sure a few readers will get a laugh out of this. This one negative star will surely be out-numbered by all the 5 stars that rightfully are attributed to this book. So I hope it was worth it to get a laugh at the expense of the nay-sayers, who should realise that being objective won’t make you more pleased. It will only make you a better, perhaps more bitter, survivor. But extant isn’t what life’s about.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
the case had a smudge on it, that i didn’t expect
additional than that, all was average
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
YA YA YA, I’ve heard it before. You can read it in 30 min,I mean I’m in 6th grade and I can read it in a 15-20 min busride.I just have to say this is equally as excellent as the Harry Potter series if not better. It might even top Sabriel!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
For the reviewers that aver it is a motivational book, you missed a large part of the tale; remember, it is about seagulls. I was forced to read this for my 10th grade english class. People aver that this book is really about their lives. Obviously, since they don’t even know Richard Bach, it’s not.
The tale is about a seagull that likes to glide. He flies. The rest of the seagulls all despise him. He is banished. He flies some more. Then he meets a spirit gull, and becomes a hero to all additional seagulls. He continues to glide.
The problem with assigning this for high school reading, is that it takes up spots that a excellent book with redeeming value could be read. Students don’t read outside of class, and if we continue to assign this sort of dribble, we will have a world of underread idiots trying to glide.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the only book I’ve ever thrown across the room upon completion. I wanted my 30 minutes of life that I’d spent reading it back. I’d like to judge that this novel (and I use the term very loosely) is a colossal joke that only Richard Bach gets, but I reflect that’s giving Bach too much credit. I can’t judge anyone would ever find this simplistic piece of fluff motivational, inspirational or enlightening.
If I hadn’t also forced myself to suffer American Psycho (around the same time period, in fact – I must have been in a masochistic frame of mind then), I would rate this the worst book I’ve ever read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5