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Summary: Average Richard Bach Book
Review: I didn't feel there was any new content in this book, it seemed to me to be a different story on what Richard has already talked about in his other books. Still the basic story was good and worth reading.
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Summary: Don't let the child within you die!
Review: I think this is Richard Bach's best book. The book makes you realize a lot many things which we usually bury deep inside us. The conversations between Dickie and Richard are too fantastic! The way Richard explians him the fundamentals of life is very simple and at the same time very profound.Moreover, the concept used by the author is very innovative and wonderful.The book really helps the reader to explore his inner self. I have loved every line of the book and would like to thank Richard Bach for such a lovely creation.
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Summary: Rich in spiritual philosophy
Review: In a narrative between himself (adult Richard Bach) andhis 9 year old former self ("Dickie"), the author presentsa guide to life. The author's spouse, Leslie, adds to the dialogue by bringing another point of view to the philosophy presented. There are many thought provoking notions presented such as: the "physics" of thoughts, "Life is," the key(s) to a successful marriage and remembering the birth experience. It reads like the author's self-therapy with the reader as a bystander/beneficiary. Anyone who enjoys Richard Bach's philosophy will find it again here, skillfully presented in the author's clever writing style.
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Summary: Dusty Thoughts.
Review: In this book, I think Richard Bach tries to show us how to find the core of ourselves. So many times we abandon thoughts and never quite finish them (not that any thought is ever finished)..:) But he had reminded me of these thoughts I had once abandoned. Richard Bach has become one of my favorite authors, not just because of this book, but the majority of his work is equally fulfulling. Prepare to change your perspective of life if you decide to read this book:)
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Summary: Richard Bach had no right to write this book.
Review: Richard Bach has written some wonderful books. I highly recommend Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions for the soul-seekers among us, The Bridge Across Forever for the romantics, and his earlier autobiographies for those of us who have always wanted to fly.But this time he's gone overboard. I've tried a few times to get through Running From Safety, but I've never made it all the way through. In this quasi-autobiographical book, Richard Bach sets up all sorts of straw-man 'learning experiences' to show how he's learning to let go of the complications and the rationalizations of an adult mind and be true to the hopes and dreams he had as a young boy. The message is good enough, but he goes about it heavy-handedly, setting himself up repeatedly then taking himself down with the morals he's trying to get across. The result is that he doesn't portray himself realistically, and he certainly doesn't come across as the same person who the Illusions / Bridge Across Forever / One trilogy set himself up to be. This new Richard Bach is less graceful and more sappy. But the real problem, the reason why I actively recommend against this book, is that the author's own life invalidates it. The principal message of the book is to stop being a dull, boring, un-fun adult rationalizing away all your hopes, and to remain true to what you once dreamed as a child, right? Well, The Bridge Across Forever beautifully showed Richard Bach's hopes for someday finding his soulmate, his 'other half,' without whom he's just not whole... but recent rumors, confirmed by a story on Bach's web site, are that he has divorced his soulmate because his hobbies and his career were more important to him than she was. It's very hard to accept that the person who would do that is the same person who wrote this book. Don't get me wrong -- I don't fault the man for making choices in his own life, but I feel that Richard Bach has in recent years gone from being a brave and unusual thinker to becoming a New Age mystic, and in doing so, he's lost touch with at least this reader.
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Summary: Richard Bach had no right to write this book.
Review: Richard Bach has written some wonderful books. I highly recommend Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions for the soul-seekers among us, The Bridge Across Forever for the romantics, and his earlier autobiographies for those of us who have always wanted to fly. But this time he's gone overboard. I've tried a few times to get through Running From Safety, but I've never made it all the way through. In this quasi-autobiographical book, Richard Bach sets up all sorts of straw-man 'learning experiences' to show how he's learning to let go of the complications and the rationalizations of an adult mind and be true to the hopes and dreams he had as a young boy. The message is good enough, but he goes about it heavy-handedly, setting himself up repeatedly then taking himself down with the morals he's trying to get across. The result is that he doesn't portray himself realistically, and he certainly doesn't come across as the same person who the Illusions / Bridge Across Forever / One trilogy set himself up to be. This new Richard Bach is less graceful and more sappy. But the real problem, the reason why I actively recommend against this book, is that the author's own life invalidates it. The principal message of the book is to stop being a dull, boring, un-fun adult rationalizing away all your hopes, and to remain true to what you once dreamed as a child, right? Well, The Bridge Across Forever beautifully showed Richard Bach's hopes for someday finding his soulmate, his 'other half,' without whom he's just not whole... but recent rumors, confirmed by a story on Bach's web site, are that he has divorced his soulmate because his hobbies and his career were more important to him than she was. It's very hard to accept that the person who would do that is the same person who wrote this book. Don't get me wrong -- I don't fault the man for making choices in his own life, but I feel that Richard Bach has in recent years gone from being a brave and unusual thinker to becoming a New Age mystic, and in doing so, he's lost touch with at least this reader.
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Summary: maybe you're right where you were meant to be
Review: Richard Bach is one of my favorite authors and in this book he explores an area i believe must of us wish to do. As we so often wonder what might've happened if we had done things different, usually because we are not happy with the way life is going right now, here we have a way to really understand that everything we've done has made us what we are today. maybe, just maybe we are where we were meant to be...but if we are not sure or happy enough, as long as there's life, there's time to get there.
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Summary: a journey of self
Review: This book gets you to talk to your ownself.After being born,and as we grow up we tend to forget the child within ourselves and leave it alone.After reading this one tends to look back to the child within oneself. During lifetime one comes across many things and learns a lot every moment and sharing these with the little child that is there in every being is very important. It is just an excellent book....and helps you to know oneself better.
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Summary: The end of the comfort zones
Review: This book successfully explores intimacy, comfort zones, A philosophy to live by, skeletons in the closet and the current limitations of linear space-time. Truly a must read for anyone who wants to travel through life with conscienceness.
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Summary: Inner Child meets Grown Man
Review: This is a dichotomy of inner child meeting up with grown man, in metaphorical terms. An autobiographical account of the author's life, although a mental stretch, will make the reader re-examine their lives and choices along the way. Made me laugh and cry.
Arlene Millman
author of BOOMERANG - A MIRACLE TRILOGY
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