The key to writing a popular inspirational book is to write general feel-good platitudes but actually say nothing. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a prime example of this. It's Chicken Soup For the Soul minus any nutritional ingredients. It's The Road Not Traveled written for those who will never lea...
Seagull’s civilization viewed in analogy with the humans’. A modern allegory written by a pilot-writer, one of J.S. Bach successors. ***civilizatia pescarusilor privita in analogie cu cea umana, o alegorie moderna scrisa de un pilot-scriitor, descendent al lui j.s. bach
I didn't dislike this book when I read it, but I understood viscerally that it was a pleasant but banal New Age book purporting to be deeper than it actually is. Even now, I'm not very offended by its vulgar thou-art-God theology because I never took the book seriously enough
Why so many people think this book was so "deep" and spiritual, I don't know -- it's about a seagull who decides that just living like a seagull isn't enough, so he learns to fly really, really fast. This non-seagull-like behavior pisses off all the other seagulls, so Jonathan is shunned, but he won...
This book was read to us in Primary School and I think the main reason liked it was due to the pretty illustrations and the fact that while she read it my teacher played Albatross in the background.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ombnqWR3eAOnce a read the whole story I realized that the story is thi...
Like everyone else, I read this and thought it was so clever, so insightful. And then time passed, and I discovered that seagulls are nasty birds rather more like Du Maurier's vision than Bach's. And I learned that Bach was rather self-absorbed and that explained so much.
I read this book too late, when I was about 18, and found it unutterable silly. I could see that the idea might once have appealed to me, but there was something about the style that just grated. Oh well.
I can distinctly remember reading this book. I was 8 and it was 1973. We were living on a sailboat in a marina in Mission Bay, San Diego. I'd hide out in our old, oxidized red International pickup truck in the marina parking lot, laying down in the overheated cab on the cracked, dark green leather b...
Lovely book about being more than you envision yourself to be. Must have been in a very introspective place since I read it so many times and loved it each time I read it. Needless to say, it isn't one of those books which takes days and days to read. Thin little ditty which can be read at one si...
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