Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Illuminative!

When I was a child, young and disenchanted with the world, my father told me to read this book. Since then, I have been on an everlasting journey, discovering more everyday. Each day brings me to a new plateau of understanding. After my father died, I grieved and continue to this day. But, I remember this book, and I know that my father is simply soaring to greater heights.

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Jonathan Livingston SEagull

I read this book as a young girl and when my son was in 3rd grade I read it to him. He loved the book. Now he is 12 and he picked this book to buy for the Chritmas Tree gift to give to a 12 year old boy. It is a book enjoyed by all ages even adults. You don't find many books like this. Highly recommended for everyone!!!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Best and Easiest Book I Have Ever Read.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull a story by Richard Bach is a fantasy story about a seagull who learns the lessons of life and learns how to over come the challenges of life.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is of course a seagull, who wants to learn to fly better and faster. Sullivan is another seagull who is an instructor up high in the sky. Chiang is an old wise seagull that is going to move to "another world" soon.
Jonathan was almost always high in the sky from day to night. Due to this he slept very little and got very tired. He's seen the beautiful sunset and sunrise every day for a very long time. Due to his love of the sky, he's on land very, very little.
The author is trying to say you can live your life, as you want to live it. The lesson is you can achieve any goal that you choose to pursue. You should follow the path that suits your life. Courage and hard work is how to find out what the true meaning of life is. He wanted to fly to terminal velocity and/or better and faster. He practiced and was trained by the best of the best trainers in the sky.
First Jonathan introduced himself as a seagull who wanted to fly better and faster and he was not doing his job in the flock. Since he was not doing his job in the flock he got kicked out. Even though he was banished from the flock, he kept practicing on how to fly better and faster. He was then chosen to be a one out of a million seagull to go to a different world that they labeled "heaven". Then he was taught by better trainers high in the sky. After that he flew back down to "his world" and trained the outcast's that wanted to also fly better and faster just like him. By the time this all passed by he learned the lesson of life.
In my way of looking at things is that whoever reads this book will always have a different way at looking at anything and everything. I never disliked any part of the book; I liked reading every single part of it. The story was a little hard to believe just because it was fantasy, but other then that it wasn't confusing at all. The story was predicable every now and then, but not all the time. To me the ending of this book was awesome, but you have to read the book for yourself to know what it was. I myself would rate this five stars from one to five; one being scraping the dead rat off the ceiling and don't even ask me how it got up there and five being totally awesome.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Quick read that makes you think

Love this book. It is one of my favorites of all time. It is something you can read in an hour but can leave you thinking about it for years to come.
Perfect book to bring to the beach!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Inspiring

I read this book and it was great i read it many times probably a great book too pass down to your children

Dumb

This is so dumb. Dont waste youe money. Its about seagulls forgoodess sakes

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What a beautiful story.

I just read this story for the first time and I've been sitting here in awe since I finished reading it 20 minutes ago. I'm a new Richard Bach fan and am thrilled to read the other books I purchased today.

This story was so beautiful. The idea of creating your own freedom and realizing your ability to create the life you wish for is only limited by the limits you put on yourself. This is definitely a book I'll always remember and one that I look forward to passing down to my children when the day comes that I have some.

I loved it

Outstanding.
Very short, but despite that, very much worth it.

Awesome

Perhapss the greatest book ever written and ive read alot of books

My grandpa knows the author and illustrator!

He also hads a signed copy and a pewter mug themed for this book that says jls . Nk!

Great story, I'd recommend it to anybody

This is one of those books that I wish everyone had in their home. It's short, plain and easy to understand, and can be a great motivator for anyone who feels locked in the flow of life.

Cool Book

A fun & interesting story of seagulls, one in particular, with metaphysical meaning.

I guess if you don't like cheesy morals...

If you don't like cheesy morals this book is definitely not for you. I however loved the simplicity, and depth of this book. If you're disappointed because he's a seagull I don't know how you didn't see that one coming. He may use basic vocabulary, but if that's what you're paying attention to you probably won't be able to read in between the lines and fully understand the meaning of this wonderful book...

It made me want to take flight, and soar!!!

I first read this book in junior high, in the mid 70's. I considered it my first real (grown up) book. I marched to the beat of my own drum, in a time when it wasn't as accepted if you were a girl. Jonathan Livingsston Seagull made it okay.

If you need inspiration, read this!

I read this book for the first time when I was in 8th grade. I am now 40 years old and have read it countless times. I bought it for my daughter's 10th birthday. It is a story that brings hope and inspiration. It is hard not to fall in love with this seagull. I look forward to reading it with my daughter and hope that she will continue to pass it on to others.

Flight of the Behemoth wrought by mocking solemnity

This is the second book I remember from my days as an eggling. Yes Kukla it is I the Beastdragon come home to roost at the precipe of mortality. In any event, this book can be read and then re-read again with one's own children. The lesson is such that it calls for it. Like 'Old man and the Sea' Hemmingway, it is agless and can be undrestood lightly or on many levels right up to the urn and coffin. Ye shalt seek to find another fossilized molt of the Beastlord in the pages of this book.

The higher you fly, the higher you soar

One of the great inspirational books to pass on from one generation to another.

To soar with the seagulls!

Seagulls or humans, we all can soar. An interesting aspect of the human mind and personal growth is that it has no limitations. Thought actually does control our actions and with certain thoughts certain results are guaranteed. The world would not be what it is today if not but for the imaginations and dreams of previous others, those with no limits to the potential of their thought. It is true, man can indeed fly!

Good book

I read this book in a day and it was really helpful to me it may seem like a short book but it really has a good meaning to it. When i first read it i thought that this was really not a very good book but when i read it again and i really thought about it i came to decide that it has a much deeper meaning than what i thought. It reminds us that the body that we see and the things that we can do are only thoughts. Our limitations are there because we think they are. If we remind ourselves that we have no limitations and that we truly are free than we will have no limits we can do anything if we only belive that it is possible. I think that this is really true and i recommend this book for all poeple and all ages.

A book for the ages

Although some of the younger generations don't get the amazing and outstanding message that this book represents, many of the readers who grew up reading this book will love this edition. This story continues to captivate audiences and inspire generations, and I'm glad to see it's been re released.