Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
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Book Summary Author: Richard Bach Photographer: Russell Munson Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2006-01-03 ISBN: 0743278909 Number of pages: 112 Publisher: Scribner Product features:
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Book Reviews of the Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Customer Review: Jonathan Livingston....where's Cheney with the shotgun?
Summary: 1 Stars
OK, so I admit upfront I am a cynic and didn't go into this with an "open mind". This oatmeal for the brain did nothing to pry my closed mind open. It's perfect that Neil Diamond (who is to a real diamond as this book is to real objective thinking) did the cloying sweet crap music for the movie.
Oh, back to the book. What this teaches is that you can write a fairly disguised children's book, or steal the sermon from your local clergyman, add some out of focus black and white photos and make a fortune. THIS is what this book really teaches. I suppose since it was rejected by so many publishers before it was printed, attests to the theme of the book, keep trying no matter what other's say.
It also is a not so thinly disguised New Testament in 52 pages. Not being
of the Christian persuasion, and an agnostic at best, I was offended by the Jesus story.....oh, it's about SEAGULLS, I see (gull).I have enough Christianity shoved down my gagging throat now by the media, the politicians in this America founded on separation of church and state.
Keep your beliefs and strive to be different may be a nice philospohy, but the jails and unemployment offices are full of "independent thinkers". Unless you are willing to live in a card board box under the local bypass, it's not realistic now. Maybe it was in 1970, when we saw the "inner meaning" (read: we were all stoned, and most anything seemed deep to us then), but it doesn't wash anymore.
Sure, I believe in marching to one's own drummer when possible, and I certainly believe in loving and helping your fellow man, woman and or animal, but despite the message this pamphlet states, if you don't hear the band, you march alone. It's usually referred to as insanity.
In order to achieve my own personal dreams, I am going to write a nice little booklet about how extraterrestrials have been running the US Government for the past 50 years, and that the mothership is waiting. Oh, sorry, L Ron Hubbard did this already, and he stole MY millions.
I must return to my boring 8-5 job now, before my indivisualism gets me all the time I need to be independent.