Shravan Certified Buyer. Richard Bach is in a class by himself. So to understand his book needs some desire for spiritual evolution. Not to be inspired by Jonathan can only mean that you have never applied anything you read into your life. And i don't see a point why people will not get inspired from such philosophy, don't get me wrong i am not criticizing the philosophy or the book i am simply saying that there is no particular reason to read it there are more mature books on this subject Surya Bhanu Katiyar Certified Buyer.
The story line itself is moral of the book. I only learnt that you have to try to improve the way you are living, the question is not how to survive in this world but how to enhance your abilities and live better life Truly one of the most beautiful and an inspiring book. Gives perfect idea about how we look upon somebody who we think are truly extraordinary and worship them and how they are just like us, just deciding to choose a different path.
Beautifully expresses why it is important and how it is to live on your own terms and create your own pathway, to live authentic, to be honest with oneself rather than living on automode, to live someone else's idea; finding out the true nature and potential of on Sameer Patel Certified Buyer , Aurangabad.
Good packaging and timely delivered. Quality of it's pages is very good , the front and the back cover's quality is very good too and the binding is also good. Questions and Answers. Q: how many pages does this book consist of? Report Abuse. Q: is this used or new book? Flipkart Customer. Q: can I get it gift wrapped along with a message? Q: is this 96 pages edition or pages edition??
Q: will I get a page mark? Q: is this thorsons classics edition. Unfortunately, his flock disagrees with his revolutionary approach to flying and he is excommunicated. He soon finds other seagulls that share the same passion and strive for greatness. He follows them to another world, some sort of paradise, where Seagulls can be their true self.
After a while, Jonathan returns to the flock in order to teach others to fly as he does and follow their dreams. The story encourages people to find what they love, follow and cultivate their talent and decide for themselves in life. The book also teaches us to be tolerant, seek the good in other people and love them for those qualities.
The author obviously loves flying he was a pilot and you can see that in every page. His description of flying was the best part of the story for me. View all 13 comments. Sep 02, Ruth rated it did not like it Shelves: total-crap.
Puerile platitudes posing as wisdom. View all 11 comments. Feb 19, Nataliya rated it liked it Shelves: reads , my-childhood-bookshelves , for-my-future-hypothetical-daughter. There is that special magic in the books you loved as a kid.
The wide-eyed innocence and all that stuff does give even the least subtle stories that unforgettable magical sheen. I was probably around eleven or so, still in the warm fuzzies of childhood, still far away from snarky and exasperated teenage know-it-all cynicism when I came across this slender little book in the depths of out school library.
It was in English - the language that I was just learning at that time, and looked more access There is that special magic in the books you loved as a kid. I inhaled this story over the course of a single afternoon, even with never-ending dictionary searches. Yes, my little impressionable heart agreed, yes - I WILL pursue my dreams and will never settle, and I will keep persevering until I reach new heights.
A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth.
The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome. Obviously, I reread it. As Terry Pratchett aptly wrote: "If you put a large switch in a cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying, 'End-of-the-World Switch.
And I was annoyed and disappointed, sure. But then I remembered what it felt like to be eleven and inspired by Seagull Jon and my inner grumpy cynicism let go a little, and some of that warmth crept back into my shriveled Grinchy heart. View all 19 comments. May 16, Cecily rated it it was ok Shelves: overrated.
It's self-consciously "beautiful" and spiritual, but doesn't really have much depth. I enjoyed it in my late teens, when I had delusions of profundity, but I don't think it has much to impart to adults.
View all 33 comments. Sep 20, Jeff rated it did not like it. When I was a lad, I had to endure my hippie science teacher's self-narrated slide show of the entire book.
It beat listening to a lecture about photosynthesis, but not by much. View all 17 comments. Jan 02, Nat K rated it liked it Shelves: illustrated-or-photographic , books , inspirational-emotional-wellness , animal-magic. What makes you happy. What fires your passion. Brings a smile to your face.
Gives you a feeling of contentment. Sure, life comes with responsibility in a myriad of forms. Needs to be met. Bills to be paid. To get worn down by the daily grind. Jonathan Livingston Seagull never gave up. He had a dream. He was determined. He wanted to fly for the simple joy of doing so. To soar as high as he could. He failed often. He went against the flock.
But he kept going. It was hard, but it was worth it. We can learn to fly. Their line and form. Their ability to soar. Their freedom. The style of writing and the way the message is put together is a tiny bit dated.
A bit hippy trippy. It was written in after all, and definitely reflects the mood of the time. But it still retains its inspirational theme. The message still rings true. To be your own person or seagull! And to support and encourage others to be the best version of themselves. To believe. To see what others can see. The photos are a perfect match for the text, and make this a wonderfully calming book to read and ponder over.
View all 21 comments. May 28, Mohsin Maqbool rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-read-in , favorites. However, I did not read the book until To be honest with you, I did not think much of it at the time and gave it away to a friend. Learning more about birds with the passage of time, I wanted to read the book again. I regretted giving it away. Luckily another friend of mine had a copy.
I finished the book in a few hours. I liked it much better this time and even wrote a review for my friend to read. Yesterday I re-read the book on pdf so that I could review it for goodreads. And I must admit that this time I actually found the book to be amazing. Maybe with age I have become more mature as I was able to grasp many things which I could not when I first read it during the '80s or even a decade back.
The book is extremely inspirational. Besides, it has a story to tell — an interesting one — that keeps you glued right to the very end. Mr Bach used to be a fighter pilot and a writer for magazines like Avian which is why talking about the flight of seagulls comes naturally to him. Jonathan Livingston Seagull was more interested in flying than eating fish or bread crumbs for survival. He wants to fly as high as possible and at speeds deemed impossible. He kept challenging himself to break each previous record.
The Elder of the Flock does not like Richard breaking rules and regulations. He wants him to stick to normal flying. For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread.
I could be spending all this time learning to fly. He is considered an Outcast and kicked out of the Flock. Having said that, it is creative writing at its best. Alliteration too is used in several places.
He learned that a streamlined high-speed dive could bring him to find the rare and tasty fish that schooled ten feet below the surface of the ocean: he no longer needed fishing boats and stale bread for survival. He learned to sleep in the air, setting a course at night across the offshore wind, covering a hundred miles from sunset to sunrise. With the same inner control, he flew through heavy sea fogs and climbed above them into dazzling clear skies He learned to ride the high winds far inland, to dine there on delicate insects.
The book teaches us to be kind and loving and tolerant through Jonathan who during a later stage of his life becomes an instructor for seagulls who want to become achievers by being at their innovative best where flying is concerned.
You have to practise and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. The book deals with a bit of fantasy too. But if I describe it, it would be akin to spoiling the fun for you. The inspirational fable contains eight black and white photographs of seagulls in flight which have been magnificently captured by Russell Munson. I highly recommend the book to everybody who likes reading good and meaningful literature and also to those who love our fine-feathered friends.
Director Hall Bartlett adapted the novella into a film in Whereas the book was a bestseller, the film was poorly received by critics and was a box-office failure. Neil Diamond wrote and recorded an album for the film's soundtrack which was a critical and commercial success, earning Diamond a Grammy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
View all 8 comments. There is certainly some fear in starting to become the person you were born to be. For those readers developing the practice of listening to a voice other th "We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. For those readers developing the practice of listening to a voice other than those that clamour around them, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a welcome companion. The book is narrated in a metaphorical way.
As you start reading it, you will connect with Jonathan Seagull. It is a young Seagull bored with the mundane life. It always craves for the higher realm of existence. Then, the series of short stories was compiled by Richard Bach and was first released as a book in The book was illustrated by Russell Munson. View 2 comments. Shelves: what-category-does-this-book-fit-in , plain-ok-nothing-more.
I am so glad, I got to know how other people feel about Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. All these years I was under the impression that some great philosophy and inner meaning had flown past my head, and that I was one of the very few who had missed it all.
Seems I was right, there is no great philosophy. I am not a dumb idiot after all. View all 29 comments. Mar 27, Kimberly rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anyone.
Shelves: favorites. I don't even know what to say about this book. One of my favorite books ever. It's very short and extremely easy to read. Great for children, even better for adults. JLS is my hero, pretty much. My copy of this book no longer resembles a book so much as a stack of papers. May 26, J. Keely rated it it was ok Shelves: contemporary-fiction , america , philosophy , reviewed. This book is a response to the flawed and disappointing underbelly of humanity, revealed for author Bach in Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, the battles for Civil Rights and Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution.
Unfortunately, it is not a work which embraces or explores those changes, but seeks an escape from the difficult questions of the world. Perhaps it should be unsurprising that the author would want to escape the everyday anxieties which mark the changing world. There is a sort of blind This book is a response to the flawed and disappointing underbelly of humanity, revealed for author Bach in Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, the battles for Civil Rights and Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution.
There is a sort of blind optimism in Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the sort you get when you take ancient and complex philosophy and distill it down into meaningless fluff. It is from this feel-good denial that the whole New Age movement springs, giving hope without guidance, and adding self-help to our self loathing. The surface of the water seems calm and glassy from afar. About The Author. Photograph by Sabryna Bach.
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