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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Terpsichoreus | Jun 9, 2009 |   Jonathan Livingston Seagull was not like any other seagull. He did not fly for survival, instead he used it for experimenting and having fun. Eventually, the other seagulls called him an outcast and had nothing to do with him. I then think he went to a heaven for seagulls who are called outcasts and trains with the best. He then learns that he is a good flyer and becomes the trainer for future outcast flyers. I would recommend this book to anyone. It is easy to read and has some photographs that children ould enjoy. This book is inspirational to use all. We all have these people who think we are a disgrace to their name. So they would abandon you, but you have to learn that it is your life and there are others like you. You just need to find them. (  )TaylorReynolds | Apr 9, 2009 | A story about a seagull who aspiredhigher than any other and achieved. FMRox | Mar 22, 2009 | It was well worth how little time it takes to read, at least in the 70s when I read it. One of these days, I may even read it again. I saw the movie first. Somehow, the book wasn’t as poignant without Neil Diamond’s soundtrack. (  )hermit_9 | Mar 21, 2009 | Okudum begendim humeyra | Mar 19, 2009 | 0.057 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0743278909, Paperback)"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 author 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 story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher 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 higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love 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(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Perhaps it should be unsurprising that the author would want to escape the everyday anxieties which marked the changing world. Certainly, there is a sort of optimism in Jonathan Livingston Seagull, though it is merely 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 offering self-help for our self loathing.
The surface of the pond seems calm and tamed from afar. The ripples almost insensible. It is tempting to hope that the whirling eddies of hate, the tumult of inequality, and the maelstroms of fear do not persist beneath it. We shall someday find, when we must navigate Scylla and Charybdis, whether we have melted down our statues and our cannons both to build a monument to those who will be lost. (