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Summary: Takes you beyond "Illusions" to limitless possibilies.
Review: "One" is a deep, thought-provoking book. If you haven't read "Illusions" (and I highly recommend that you do!) you may founder a bit at the beginning, but you'll soon find your footing in Richard Bach's presentation of parallel lives based on choices we've made in our lives. Just stepping back to see that we are always making choices (sometimes not consciously) can help us better understand where we are in life and where we are going.As much as I love this book, "Illusions" is my favorite, primarily because of it's simplicity. "One" is complex, not in the writing style, but in the possibilities it presents.
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Summary: If you have a relation (all kind) you must read this book.
Review: An exciting book. We've always blamed our partner of bad things that's happened with us. Richard helps us to see the other side, an opportunity to see and understand our fears and fails and feel the happiness. And find out how wonderful is sharing life
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Summary: A lovely Mind-Flight!
Review: Another wonderful Richard Bach rendering... This is a great pick me up book if you are looking for a lift. To me it gives us all permission to take a positive outlook on life and explore the thoughts and feelings we have that bring joy to our own lives rather than feeling we must defend them by others standards. I like that, you might too!
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Summary: ONE-derful
Review: As usual, Richard writes with an easy familiarity and an unpretensiousness that is unlike most writers. Because he is a pilot, he writes simply, as a pilot thinks: swift and to the point, very little fluff; however his points are very rarely missed. Never have I read anyone who so clearly states what is in his heart, mind and soul. The part about The Pages is at once hopeful, frightening, and joyous. Every book from JONATHAN forward should belong to everyone's library.
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Summary: Bright spirit and hope
Review: By coincidence (if those exist), I was reading the 'One' and quantum physics at same time, and playing piano (Bach..) in the middle. That was a beautiful love/learning experience that I won't forget for some time. Richard Bach is maybe not the most intellectual writer I know, but his spirit is crystal bright and catching. And he helped me to find again the hope of finding my soulmate, learning how to live the life I want and learning how to fly...
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Summary: Boring, but somewhat inspirational
Review: First of all, I like to congratulate all the readers that read this book more than once. That is quite a feat. ONE time is more than enough. This book is so boring for a fictional read. It reminded me of the movie, "Solaris", which is about going back in time only it added another twist: if you could change the past, would you? Anyway, that movie is just as boring, but I must say it is better than this book because the actress is hot. I thought the author's concept of "One" is quite confusing. For instance, the chapter when Leslie encourages her younger self to pursue playing the piano, a path she had not taken, this will affect her life and what she is now. In any case, I don't think one decision can totally change a whole person's life as some readers suggest. If this was the case, we would all be in deep trouble. There are always exceptions, such as deciding to buy that lottery ticket and winning, but usually it takes many decisions to shape one's life. I don't buy this decision-making plot or the plot that everything is "One". But two stars for the nice self-help pieces littered throughout the book and for the nice cover.
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Summary: Boring, but somewhat inspirational
Review: First of all, I like to congratulate all the readers that read this book more than once. That is quite a feat. ONE time is more than enough. This book is so boring for a fictional read. It reminded me of the movie, "Solaris", which is about going back in time only it added another twist: if you could change the past, would you? Anyway, that movie is just as boring, but I must say it is better than this book because the actress is hot. I thought the author's concept of "One" is quite confusing. For instance, the chapter when Leslie encourages her younger self to pursue playing the piano, a path she had not taken, this will affect her life and what she is now. In any case, I don't think one decision can totally change a whole person's life as some readers suggest. If this was the case, we would all be in deep trouble. There are always exceptions, such as deciding to buy that lottery ticket and winning, but usually it takes many decisions to shape one's life. I don't buy this decision-making plot or the plot that everything is "One". But two stars for the nice self-help pieces littered throughout the book and for the nice cover.
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Summary: Flight is freedom once again and for everyone.
Review: Flight is freedom, freedom from time and space. As in two of his other books, Illusions: The Tale of a Reluctant Messiah and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach uses flight maturely and appropriately as a chance to learn without the constraints of earth, or reality. As the plane he and his wife are flying in disappears from radar and reality, they have the chance to see the infinite possibilities of their lives: past, present, and future. They learn eventually that they are a part of each other, and that everyone is ONE. The readers are the writer, heroes are murderers, and you and I are interchangeable pronouns. It is a complexly simple and beautiful idea. However, unlike two of the author's other stories of individuals who are socially shunned, rebel teacher-types, this one stresses the submission of the individual to the whole; definitely not written for the fiercely independent individuals who may be expecting encouragement rather than calmness from the book. The reason for only a four-star rating is not indebted to any socially radical leanings, but is for a contradiction from this usually mentally agile author. Toward the end of the story, our humble narrator stumbles a bit by mentioning a higher power. Was getting past this dependence not the point, or has the grand and gaping logic of philosophy circled and returned, recycled, to a dependence on something other than ouselves? Do I hear the Pageites rattling somewhere in one of their name-induced wars? The eloquence and energy of the story, though, fade any inconsistency to a mere blur on the horizon. It is an honorable tribute to those moments of tearful and laughing love for the world, the universe, humanity, and for the ecstasy of existence.
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Summary: Good Philosphy
Review: Good book . Make u think why we have choosen the path were we are in today. Good simple language. I haven't read much of the books of Bach.This is my first ONE but not the last one..
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Summary: Another great book by Richard Bach
Review: Have you ever read a book that made you stop and think? One that is different than all the others?
Over the past weekend I read Richard Bach's book, "one". It is a book that is written in a story format; one that has many messages in it and one that makes you stop and think.
It is about choices we make. And how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose. To quote from the book: "A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees form the world around us."
I found myself involved in the story, when I finished the book I had many thoughts about my own life. It is a book that I would recommend you to read!
On the back cover the following quote is shown. It is a good quote for reflection!
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now.
Was it worth it?"
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