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راه زیادی آمدهایم نه؟ بیست و پنج سال پیش، وقتی همدیگر را دیدیم، من خلبان بودم و مسحور پرواز، در پی معانی در ورای ابزار و سرعت. بیست سال پیش در سفرمان به آن طرح زندگی جدید رسیدیم. ده سال پیش منجی عالم را دیدیم، و دریافتیم که او خود ماست. اما من مردی تنها بودم با ذهنی مالامال از فصلها و ارتفاعات مستور در پس حجاب کلمات. و حق با شما بود؛
422 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1988
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Richard Bach
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Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people through his humor, wisdom and insight.
With over 60 million copies of his books sold, Richard Bach remains one of the world's most beloved authors. A former USAF fighter pilot, Air Force captain and latter-day barnstorming pilot, Bach continues to be an avid aviator-author, exploring and chronicling the joys and freedom of flying, reporting his findings to readers.
His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student, which incorporates Bach's real-life plane crash.
In October 2014, the never-before-published Part Four to Jonathan Livingston Seagull was published.
Readers can find more about Richard and his work at www.richardbach.com
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March 16, 2009
I bought this book many years ago, after reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions. I tried several times to read the book, but never got past a few pages. Finally, I vowed to read it: If I liked it, it would stay on my shelf; if I didn't like it, I'd donate it.
I'll be donating this book to the library tomorrow.
If I were a teenager, with most of life's major choices ahead of me, this book would probably offer some lessons worth learning. If I were not a thinking, self-aware person, the ideas in this book might be eye-opening. Both cases not being true, I found this book more like science-fiction masquerading as philosophy.
I imagine the author re-living all his late-night dorm-room conversations and early adult cocktail/dinner parties, and never having been able to get a word in edgewise, he constructs this venue through which to express all his varied philosophies. His ideas are not without merit, but the presentation is lacking.
The writing style leaves a lot to be desired. It is completely devoid of wit or subtlety. It is black-and-white reading, laying out the characters and scenes like a young adult fiction. Reading the dialogue is like watching over-actors struggling with a poor script. Occasionally, reading the book was downright painful; several times, I actually put down the book, rolling my eyes, unable to continue.
I plan to re-read Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, just to be sure. :P
I'll be donating this book to the library tomorrow.
If I were a teenager, with most of life's major choices ahead of me, this book would probably offer some lessons worth learning. If I were not a thinking, self-aware person, the ideas in this book might be eye-opening. Both cases not being true, I found this book more like science-fiction masquerading as philosophy.
I imagine the author re-living all his late-night dorm-room conversations and early adult cocktail/dinner parties, and never having been able to get a word in edgewise, he constructs this venue through which to express all his varied philosophies. His ideas are not without merit, but the presentation is lacking.
The writing style leaves a lot to be desired. It is completely devoid of wit or subtlety. It is black-and-white reading, laying out the characters and scenes like a young adult fiction. Reading the dialogue is like watching over-actors struggling with a poor script. Occasionally, reading the book was downright painful; several times, I actually put down the book, rolling my eyes, unable to continue.
I plan to re-read Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, just to be sure. :P
July 8, 2014
Let me be clear: when I read this I was all about finding my soul mate and blah, blah, blah. And now I know there's no mystical meeting of souls. My true love is the man who takes out the garbage because I don't want to. And I'm his true love, because I keep the house tidy and figure the taxes, things he doesn't want to do. And we stay together not because there are a million alternate worlds in which we were fated to be together, but because we make each other laugh, and bring each other drinks and pills when we're sick.
Sorry the marriage didn't last, Bach.
Sorry the marriage didn't last, Bach.
January 9, 2008
If you've ever seen yourself in someone else, or felt how they bring something out in you...if you've ever wondered what a world without war would be like, or a world that bombed instead of blinked to "end" the Cold War...if you've ever wondered how life would be if you'd met your soulmate at a different time in your life, or felt like your soul is connected with everyone else's...this book is totally for you. Simply open your mind a little, sit back and enjoy the ride.
May 30, 2024
3.4/5 stars 🌟🌟🌟💫! Another foray into the interplay between science and spirituality, parallel universes. Bach weaves quantum physics into this narrative. The story follows Bach and his wife, Leslie, who find themselves catapulted into an alternate world—one where they exist simultaneously in various incarnations. Their first encounter is with their younger selves, 16 years prior, on the day they first met. In this version of their lives, they never marry, missing out on the happiness that their real union has produced.
While I enjoyed Bach’s inventive imagination, inspirational zeal, and exploration of my own existence through his narrative, he focuses more on metaphysical aspects than developing relatable personalities for his characters. A deeper exploration of their emotions and motivations could have enhanced my connection to the story as a reader.
There were times when the story felt like a repetitive loop—much like the parallel lives it portrays. I wished the scientific exposition/quantum physics and storytelling were better balanced. Certain plot twists felt predictable and pacing dragged occasionally. The novel delves into spirituality, philosophy, and romance, inviting us to question our choices and the paths we take. It was 320 pages of thought-provoking prose, and worth a read despite its flaws.
While I enjoyed Bach’s inventive imagination, inspirational zeal, and exploration of my own existence through his narrative, he focuses more on metaphysical aspects than developing relatable personalities for his characters. A deeper exploration of their emotions and motivations could have enhanced my connection to the story as a reader.
There were times when the story felt like a repetitive loop—much like the parallel lives it portrays. I wished the scientific exposition/quantum physics and storytelling were better balanced. Certain plot twists felt predictable and pacing dragged occasionally. The novel delves into spirituality, philosophy, and romance, inviting us to question our choices and the paths we take. It was 320 pages of thought-provoking prose, and worth a read despite its flaws.
October 1, 2020
An upsetting book. I am sorry But I thought: what the heck...?
March 27, 2008
I read this just to see how bad it was, back in high school. The answer: painful. Oh, man. Whine whine whine oh daddy never loved me, my parents drank alcohol, I don't think the world understands my hippy love for flying airplanes. I like airplanes as much as the next person but this book nearly killed that love.
Brief synopsis: Richard Bach is back. He and his wife go on a plane ride and get visited by an interdimensional being who is a cross between them. She is a young Polynesian girl for some reason (they are an elderly white couple so...okay) Polynesian girl shows them alternate realities they could have lived in including Stalinist Russia, where apparently reading any kind of book whatsoever was banned as illegal (seriously, what?), and a utopia where everybody loves each other because they all rally around plane races. Oy very. Richard Bach went on to make even worse tripe than this but I didn't read it because I had already read Piers Anthony and feared going into a coma should I continue reading stories of talking ferrets (I am so not kidding)
Brief synopsis: Richard Bach is back. He and his wife go on a plane ride and get visited by an interdimensional being who is a cross between them. She is a young Polynesian girl for some reason (they are an elderly white couple so...okay) Polynesian girl shows them alternate realities they could have lived in including Stalinist Russia, where apparently reading any kind of book whatsoever was banned as illegal (seriously, what?), and a utopia where everybody loves each other because they all rally around plane races. Oy very. Richard Bach went on to make even worse tripe than this but I didn't read it because I had already read Piers Anthony and feared going into a coma should I continue reading stories of talking ferrets (I am so not kidding)
May 24, 2019
من چند سال قبل کتاب اوهام رو ازین نویسنده خوندم. اون زمان و اون کتاب فوق العاده به نظرم زیبا و تاثیر گذار بود
اما این کتاب
فکر میکنم یک رمان برای رده سنی ۱۱-۱۲ سال باشه
تصویر سازی های ناقص و کودکانه
موضوع کتاب بد نبود ولی واقعا بد بهش پرداخته شده بود.
ارزش خوندن نداره
برای اولین بار در عمرم سعی کردم با سختی زیاااااد که یک کتاب بیهوده و ازاردهنده رو تمام نکرده کنار بزارم
خداوندا به من صبر و توانایی نه گفتن حتی به ادامه کتاب را بیاموز
امین
اما این کتاب
فکر میکنم یک رمان برای رده سنی ۱۱-۱۲ سال باشه
تصویر سازی های ناقص و کودکانه
موضوع کتاب بد نبود ولی واقعا بد بهش پرداخته شده بود.
ارزش خوندن نداره
برای اولین بار در عمرم سعی کردم با سختی زیاااااد که یک کتاب بیهوده و ازاردهنده رو تمام نکرده کنار بزارم
خداوندا به من صبر و توانایی نه گفتن حتی به ادامه کتاب را بیاموز
امین
July 17, 2008
This is so far my favorite of Bach's books. The ideas portrayed are so incredibly powerful and touching, they really speak to that core within.
Richard and Leslie (AKA RiLesChardlie) are flying to LA to attend a conference at Spring Hills where other unique thinkers of the time are gathering there to discuss their ideas. As they come in to approach LA in their rainbow seaplane something extraordinary happened and they find themselves ripped from the world they were in and in a dimension of sorts where they have access to alternative them's, lifetimes, worlds etc. They come to learn however that these other places are not external from them but that it is all an extension of their consciousness, that in fact we are all one, with one lifetime! Really amazing!
Richard and Leslie (AKA RiLesChardlie) are flying to LA to attend a conference at Spring Hills where other unique thinkers of the time are gathering there to discuss their ideas. As they come in to approach LA in their rainbow seaplane something extraordinary happened and they find themselves ripped from the world they were in and in a dimension of sorts where they have access to alternative them's, lifetimes, worlds etc. They come to learn however that these other places are not external from them but that it is all an extension of their consciousness, that in fact we are all one, with one lifetime! Really amazing!
January 22, 2011
One of my favourites. The book draws you in with ideas of parallel worlds, alternate pasts, crossroads... you are taken on an exploration with Richard and Leslie of whether choices could really change our destiny and it all ties together strangely...
"We fly up high," I said trembling with insight, "and we have perspective!" We see every choice and fork and crossroad. But the lower we fly, the more we lose perspective. And when we land, our perspective on all the other choices is gone! We focus on detail: daily, hourly, minute-ly detail, alternate lifetimes forgotten!"
"We fly up high," I said trembling with insight, "and we have perspective!" We see every choice and fork and crossroad. But the lower we fly, the more we lose perspective. And when we land, our perspective on all the other choices is gone! We focus on detail: daily, hourly, minute-ly detail, alternate lifetimes forgotten!"
May 16, 2021
Que lindo volver a leer a Richard<3. Hay libros que me gustaron más pero igual lo disfruté un montón. Fue especial leer un libro que perteneció a mi abuela y que está firmado y dedicado para ella.
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
September 24, 2013
What can I say. Another brilliant book by Richard. Compelling.
May 30, 2018
,,-Ir kai tiktai šioje šalyje bent keletas žmonių suvoks,kad vienas žmogus gali turėti kelis gyvenimus,mes iš karto pasakysime jiems:ne, kiekvienas žmogus turi nesuskaičiuojamą galybę gyvenimų, ir visi jie vyksta iš karto, vienu metu."
April 22, 2017
Oh, Richard Bach. I want to love you more than I actually love you. My rating is mainly because I would feel bad with anything else.
It's just, these are lovely ideas. All of us being one. The idea of militaries competing in games. The pacifist discussion. Everything being a metaphor for the universe's way. I want to hug these ideas, I want to inhale them.
At the same time, this isn't philosophy. This is too much meta-physics to be literature but it lacks the logical and proof to be pure philosophy. Ultimately, he hasn't managed to convince me to believe in what he's talking about. He creates a very beautiful world of ideas, kind of a philosophical sci-fi thing, but the plot isn't strong enough and the characters hardly provide a strong enough framework for the ideas.
So what does this leave us with? Gorgeous ideas in a boring plot, no real proof or logic but damn, am I in love with these ideas! I want to play them around in my head, to adopt them as an alternative view to what I actually believe.
The ideas, as said by others, are written a bit too simply for my taste. It lacks the grace and charm of other philosophy lit books. It's just, ignore everything bad I say because I do think it's a neat book to read.
what I'm taking with me:
• We are one. We're all the same. We're all people and love is the way.
• I'm such a pacifist, I wish we did have these war games instead, uniting together to make the world better.
• Fuck the army.
• Leslie and Richard broke up so clearly their love wasn't all the powerful. But hey, time is a lie so the present doesn't matter.
It's just, these are lovely ideas. All of us being one. The idea of militaries competing in games. The pacifist discussion. Everything being a metaphor for the universe's way. I want to hug these ideas, I want to inhale them.
At the same time, this isn't philosophy. This is too much meta-physics to be literature but it lacks the logical and proof to be pure philosophy. Ultimately, he hasn't managed to convince me to believe in what he's talking about. He creates a very beautiful world of ideas, kind of a philosophical sci-fi thing, but the plot isn't strong enough and the characters hardly provide a strong enough framework for the ideas.
So what does this leave us with? Gorgeous ideas in a boring plot, no real proof or logic but damn, am I in love with these ideas! I want to play them around in my head, to adopt them as an alternative view to what I actually believe.
The ideas, as said by others, are written a bit too simply for my taste. It lacks the grace and charm of other philosophy lit books. It's just, ignore everything bad I say because I do think it's a neat book to read.
what I'm taking with me:
• We are one. We're all the same. We're all people and love is the way.
• I'm such a pacifist, I wish we did have these war games instead, uniting together to make the world better.
• Fuck the army.
• Leslie and Richard broke up so clearly their love wasn't all the powerful. But hey, time is a lie so the present doesn't matter.
March 30, 2024
Even the love between soul mates can be mortal...it's all about us,we must struggle to be deserved for being an eternal soul mate...
هر چه اوج می گیریم، چشم اندازمان گسترده تر می شود و گزینش ها و دو راهی ها و میان برها را بهتر می بینیم وهر چه فرود بیاییم، چشم اندازمان را از دست می دهیم و هنگام فرود، درک و دریافتمان از ��زینش های دیگر بر باد می رود. حواسمان پی جزئیات می رود: جزئیات روزمره ی ساعت به ساعت و دقیقه به دقیقه و به این ترتیب زندگی های همتا را فراموش می کنیم.
هر چه اوج می گیریم، چشم اندازمان گسترده تر می شود و گزینش ها و دو راهی ها و میان برها را بهتر می بینیم وهر چه فرود بیاییم، چشم اندازمان را از دست می دهیم و هنگام فرود، درک و دریافتمان از ��زینش های دیگر بر باد می رود. حواسمان پی جزئیات می رود: جزئیات روزمره ی ساعت به ساعت و دقیقه به دقیقه و به این ترتیب زندگی های همتا را فراموش می کنیم.
November 19, 2012
I think, in my young adult years, this book, more than any of the Bach books that I poured over, affected the way I looked at the choices that I might make in my life and how they would affect my future. In this timeless classic, Bach discourses on the endless divergence of roads not taken and the endless possibilities of self that must arise upon personal reflection.
January 10, 2025
Martı Jonathan Livingston en çok sevdiğim kitaplar arasındadır bu yüzden her ne kadar Richard Bach’ın diğer kitaplarını sevmemiş olsam da yine de okumadığım kitaplarına arada elimi atarım. Bir paralel evren düşüncesini her şey aynı anda herkesle ‘bir’ olarak birleştirmiş. Richard Bach’ın kendisi ve eşiyle çıktığı uçak yolculuğunda birden farklı dünyaları gezmeye başlamalarını anlatıyor. Enteresan bir düşünce olduğuna katılsam da yazımı aşırı basit kalmasından sevemedim. Diğer rahatsız eden kısım da yazarın kendisini ve eşini kurmaca eserin içine dahil etmesi. Farklı bir yazar ayrı karakterler oluşturup kitabı başka bir boyuta taşıyabilirdi ve kendisinin hem gerçekçi hem de gerçeküstü yazma çabası bence kitabın destek noktalarını zayıflatıyor. Bir de çok didaktik bir metindi. Sadece kendi düşüncelerini önemseyip onu okura zorla benimsetme çabasını gördüm okurken. Ruh eşi olarak gördüğü ve kitaplarında sürekli bahsettiği eşinden boşanmış olması da enteresan geliyor 😄
November 2, 2021
To me, this book seemed to be a combination of The midnight library and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch in terms of the theme and the topics it delves into.
Based on the concept of quantum physics and the idea that each choice we make in this life leads to a parallel existence and versions of us living those lives, it follows the author and his then wife Leslie as they are whisked away to various timelines in their past to meet their own selves.
I found certain parts of it very well written like the concept of the idea factory mirroring a steel forge where ideas are formed. Some of it was overly philosophical and confusing.
Based on the concept of quantum physics and the idea that each choice we make in this life leads to a parallel existence and versions of us living those lives, it follows the author and his then wife Leslie as they are whisked away to various timelines in their past to meet their own selves.
I found certain parts of it very well written like the concept of the idea factory mirroring a steel forge where ideas are formed. Some of it was overly philosophical and confusing.
June 28, 2015
In this1988 book the author continues the story of Richard and Leslie which he started in his previous book The Bridge Across Forever. Here the author explores the topic of parallel universes and interconnectedness of world(s) and people in them. He built this book around the central idea "what if we could meet our past selves and give them advice, our future selves and learn from them, our parallel universe alternative selves to get new perspective on our life".
Book nicely continues and builds on the author's philosophies introduced in his other books such as nothing happens without a reason, that we can and should learn from everything that happens to us, and that there is more to the world than what we see immediately around us.
Some of the ideas that I noted down: a tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow; we design our lives through the power of our choices; character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideals without being sure they will work; an easy life doesn't teach us anything - in the end it's the learning that matters, what we've learned and how we've grown; there is no past or future, everything that can happen is happening now, time is only our name for the motion of consciousness. To be re-read again.
Book nicely continues and builds on the author's philosophies introduced in his other books such as nothing happens without a reason, that we can and should learn from everything that happens to us, and that there is more to the world than what we see immediately around us.
Some of the ideas that I noted down: a tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow; we design our lives through the power of our choices; character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideals without being sure they will work; an easy life doesn't teach us anything - in the end it's the learning that matters, what we've learned and how we've grown; there is no past or future, everything that can happen is happening now, time is only our name for the motion of consciousness. To be re-read again.
January 19, 2010
سالها پیش خوانده ام و مشتاقم که دوباره هم بخوانم
April 10, 2013
This is one of my favorites books. This was my first approach to reading by pleasure.
I read it during my exchange year in Austria durin 2000 and 2001. I gift from my father.
I read it during my exchange year in Austria durin 2000 and 2001. I gift from my father.
July 22, 2025
نوجوان که بودم خوندمش زمانیکه انتخابهای زیادی سر راهم بود بعضی جملات کتاب درسهای خوبی میتونست داشته باشه
میدونم الان جذابیتی برام نداره حتی شاید همون جملات شکل شعار برام داشته باشه
میدونم الان جذابیتی برام نداره حتی شاید همون جملات شکل شعار برام داشته باشه
September 28, 2024
من از ریچارد باخ تا حالا دو تا کتاب خوندم و با هر دوتاش به سختی ارتباط برقرار کردم مخصوصن این یکی.
خیلی سخت بود تموم کردنش…درسته بعضی جاها میشه چند تا چیز ازش یاد گرفت که خیلیم جدید نیستن و احتمالن هممون اینور اونور شنیدیم ولی به نظرم حتی اگر این کتاب طرح اولیه خوبی بوده اجراش اصلن اینطور نیست… خیلی جای بحث داره بعضی مفهومایی که خیلی ساده هم هستند و نویسنده راجبشون نوشته و نظر داده … اونم نظرایی که خیلی خام و نپخته به نظر میان و این خوندن کتاب و آزار دهنده میکرد…
نمیدونم اگر میخواست واقعی و فکت محور و خیلی فیزیک طور باشه دیگه پری یا یه سری چیزای دیگه چی بودن🫠😭اصلن نیازی نبود که باشن … به نظرم نویسندگی خوده کتاب خیلی گیج بود…و همین ،داستان و گیجمیکرد در کنار تلاش برای فلسفی بودن …فلسفه هایی که خیلی عجیبن و اصلن شاید به بعضیاش نشه گفت فلسفه …🫠
یه نه بزرگ به این کتاب…
خیلی سخت بود تموم کردنش…درسته بعضی جاها میشه چند تا چیز ازش یاد گرفت که خیلیم جدید نیستن و احتمالن هممون اینور اونور شنیدیم ولی به نظرم حتی اگر این کتاب طرح اولیه خوبی بوده اجراش اصلن اینطور نیست… خیلی جای بحث داره بعضی مفهومایی که خیلی ساده هم هستند و نویسنده راجبشون نوشته و نظر داده … اونم نظرایی که خیلی خام و نپخته به نظر میان و این خوندن کتاب و آزار دهنده میکرد…
نمیدونم اگر میخواست واقعی و فکت محور و خیلی فیزیک طور باشه دیگه پری یا یه سری چیزای دیگه چی بودن🫠😭اصلن نیازی نبود که باشن … به نظرم نویسندگی خوده کتاب خیلی گیج بود…و همین ،داستان و گیجمیکرد در کنار تلاش برای فلسفی بودن …فلسفه هایی که خیلی عجیبن و اصلن شاید به بعضیاش نشه گفت فلسفه …🫠
یه نه بزرگ به این کتاب…
November 11, 2023
This book is top five reads this year, and maybe top five of my life. This book helped me digest life. This book is intentional and also silly and light-hearted at times.
A wonderful reminder of our autonomy in life and the ability to shift perspective can make all the difference. I love all the friends they made along the way with a special love for Tink the idea fairy.
Love me conditionally!!!!
A wonderful reminder of our autonomy in life and the ability to shift perspective can make all the difference. I love all the friends they made along the way with a special love for Tink the idea fairy.
Love me conditionally!!!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 10, 2022
Some fairly interesting ideas but the writing felt a bit all over the place and I found myself frequently rolling my eyes. Given the constant reminders that this couple were soulmates, it was disappointing to learn they divorced in real life.
December 31, 2021
Read this when I was pretty young and made me want to kill myself for the first time. Really not that deep 3/10
October 23, 2025
Прекрасна илюстрация на живота такъв, какъв е и такъв, какъвто би могъл да бъде...
January 24, 2021
A very good bringing of a spiritual concept into story format, perhaps a little too mystical and in your face about the concept.
Either way I enjoyed the read. It's a story that means to suggest a particular structure to reality and identity. The story is elegant enough and succeeds in making a good argument as well as getting it across effectively.
A great aid for non-dogmatised spirituality, but a nice story too.
Either way I enjoyed the read. It's a story that means to suggest a particular structure to reality and identity. The story is elegant enough and succeeds in making a good argument as well as getting it across effectively.
A great aid for non-dogmatised spirituality, but a nice story too.
January 10, 2025
Рецензія була написана: 31.05.2015
Біографія? Фантазія? Метафізика? Філософія?
Роман чи збірка метафор? Це незвичайне питання постало переді мною ще на самому початку книги й до останніх сторінок не покидало моєї голови. Розібратися в ньому та знайти відповідь було непросто.
Не сперечаюся, деякі сюжети, в яких з волі долі виявлялися головні герої, змушували з цікавістю стежити за кожним рядком і думати, чим закінчиться ця коротка подорож. Але, на жаль, таких моментів у книзі – буквально кілька штук. В основному ж мене не залишало почуття, що автор довгі роки записував мудрі думки та висловлювання зі своєї голови, підказані розумом і ограновані досвідом. А потім, не бажаючи випускати "Збірник афоризмів", вирішив одягнути весь цей багаж у літературну форму і вписати їх у сюжет.
Чи вийшло це в нього? Сказати важко. Комусь сподобається такий спосіб філософствування, мені ж він видався дивним та незвичним. Мудрі думки так і ллються в кожній, навіть найпростішій розмові персонажів. Весь час натикаєшся на усвідомлення того, що в житті люди не можуть так спілкуватися весь час. Можна зрозуміти бажання автора ідеалізувати його стосунки з дружиною, але навіть цей аспект книги – їхні взаємини – здається надто награним. І це вже якщо не брати до уваги головний сюжет — те, що саме сталося з подружжям Бах.
Із самого початку їхньої подорожі не залишає відчуття того, що ти читаєш низькопробне фентезі або дорослу дитячу казку. Зрозуміло, цей містицизм потрібен для розкриття головної мети — тисячі розумних і важливих життєвих порад, але така форма подачі здалася мені невдалою. Набагато краще було б написати етико-філософський трактат. Ну, хоча б трактатик.
"Чайка на ім'я Джонатан Лівінгстон" у порівнянні здалася вдалішою. Вона ко��отша, легше сприймається та органічніша за своєю подачею. Але я все ж таки більше схиляюся до того, що автор просто "не мій".
Біографія? Фантазія? Метафізика? Філософія?
Роман чи збірка метафор? Це незвичайне питання постало переді мною ще на самому початку книги й до останніх сторінок не покидало моєї голови. Розібратися в ньому та знайти відповідь було непросто.
Не сперечаюся, деякі сюжети, в яких з волі долі виявлялися головні герої, змушували з цікавістю стежити за кожним рядком і думати, чим закінчиться ця коротка подорож. Але, на жаль, таких моментів у книзі – буквально кілька штук. В основному ж мене не залишало почуття, що автор довгі роки записував мудрі думки та висловлювання зі своєї голови, підказані розумом і ограновані досвідом. А потім, не бажаючи випускати "Збірник афоризмів", вирішив одягнути весь цей багаж у літературну форму і вписати їх у сюжет.
Чи вийшло це в нього? Сказати важко. Комусь сподобається такий спосіб філософствування, мені ж він видався дивним та незвичним. Мудрі думки так і ллються в кожній, навіть найпростішій розмові персонажів. Весь час натикаєшся на усвідомлення того, що в житті люди не можуть так спілкуватися весь час. Можна зрозуміти бажання автора ідеалізувати його стосунки з дружиною, але навіть цей аспект книги – їхні взаємини – здається надто награним. І це вже якщо не брати до уваги головний сюжет — те, що саме сталося з подружжям Бах.
Із самого початку їхньої подорожі не залишає відчуття того, що ти читаєш низькопробне фентезі або дорослу дитячу казку. Зрозуміло, цей містицизм потрібен для розкриття головної мети — тисячі розумних і важливих життєвих порад, але така форма подачі здалася мені невдалою. Набагато краще було б написати етико-філософський трактат. Ну, хоча б трактатик.
"Чайка на ім'я Джонатан Лівінгстон" у порівнянні здалася вдалішою. Вона ко��отша, легше сприймається та органічніша за своєю подачею. Але я все ж таки більше схиляюся до того, що автор просто "не мій".
December 26, 2022
"Каждое событие - это слово, предложение или часть незаконченной истории; каждая буква вечно находится на своей странице. Меняется только сознание, которое выбирает, что читать, а что оставить непрочитанным. Когда ты обращаешься к странице, на которой идет речь о ядерной войне, ты впадаешь в отчаяние или учишься тому, чему она может тебя научить? Прочтя эту страницу, ты умрешь или пойдешь читать дальше, обогатившись опытом от прочитанного."
Если существует литературный экстаз, то я испытала его с этой книгой. Настолько сильными были мои эмоции при чтении. Внутри всё трепетало от восхищения и я упивалась каждой прочитанной страницей. Сердце бешено колотилось, а слова, складывающиеся во фразы находили во мне невероятный отклик.
Я знаю, что Бах для каждого воспринимается по-своему. Кому-то кажется откровенно скучным то, что он пишет, кто-то считает, что он слишком зациклен на себе и своих полетах, для кого-то его идеи каждутся банальными. Про себя же я могу сказать, что нашла "свою" книгу. А может быть это книга нашла меня. В подходящее время и в определенное состояние души. Вероятно прочитав её раньше, я бы её совсем не поняла, дочитала бы и забыла. Но в данный момент времени я черпала из неё вдохновение и энергию, это был словно глоток свежего воздуха. Она замечательно вычищает голову от всех тревожных мыслей. Нерешенные задачи, усталость, подавленное состояние, напряженность. Всё это моментально уходило, стоило мне погрузиться в чтение. И больше ничего меня не беспокоило, я вместе с Ричардом и Лесли парила над потоками вариантов.
В оригинале книга называется "One" и я склонна согласиться, что "Единственная" - это не самый лучший вариант. Ведь вся суть не в ком-то одном, а в единстве. Что мы - единое целое
Если существует литературный экстаз, то я испытала его с этой книгой. Настолько сильными были мои эмоции при чтении. Внутри всё трепетало от восхищения и я упивалась каждой прочитанной страницей. Сердце бешено колотилось, а слова, складывающиеся во фразы находили во мне невероятный отклик.
Я знаю, что Бах для каждого воспринимается по-своему. Кому-то кажется откровенно скучным то, что он пишет, кто-то считает, что он слишком зациклен на себе и своих полетах, для кого-то его идеи каждутся банальными. Про себя же я могу сказать, что нашла "свою" книгу. А может быть это книга нашла меня. В подходящее время и в определенное состояние души. Вероятно прочитав её раньше, я бы её совсем не поняла, дочитала бы и забыла. Но в данный момент времени я черпала из неё вдохновение и энергию, это был словно глоток свежего воздуха. Она замечательно вычищает голову от всех тревожных мыслей. Нерешенные задачи, усталость, подавленное состояние, напряженность. Всё это моментально уходило, стоило мне погрузиться в чтение. И больше ничего меня не беспокоило, я вместе с Ричардом и Лесли парила над потоками вариантов.
В оригинале книга называется "One" и я склонна согласиться, что "Единственная" - это не самый лучший вариант. Ведь вся суть не в ком-то одном, а в единстве. Что мы - единое целое
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February 6, 2025I read this book over a couple rainy days in a sailboat whilst anchored in a little cove (with no cell reception). If you had asked me to rate the book right after reading it, I'd probably say something like 4.25 stars (because the mood while I read felt quite literally out of a storybook.) However, now that a week plus has passed, I'd say a more accurate rating would be 3.5 stars for me.
This feels like one of those books that has the potential to find "the right reader at the right time". It's got good potential to be a "favorite" for people who don't solely exist in the sensory/physical world but have equal (if not more) weight in more esoteric realms of life and consciousness (and are seeking kindred author/book spirits.)
We live in a world where it's impossible to please everyone even if you live on the metaphorical fence your whole life and so I appreciate anyone who's got guts to be generous with their life and love and shares what they're learning along the way. I'm glad I read this book, but probably had too high of expectations hoping it'd conjure up similar feelings I felt when I first discovered Bach and his book Illusions.
I understand why this book most certainly isn't and couldn't be for everyone...and I don't think this book tries to be, but I can also see how it'd be challenging as an extremely open-minded writer and thinker to not unconsciously try (...and it's so incredibly tempting to try!)
The overall essence and general theme of this book somewhat reminded me of the incredibly short story "The Egg" by Andy Weir. Both stories carry the capacity to really make a mind think, but there's still an unsatisfied hunger for feeling something much more deeply.
This feels like one of those books that has the potential to find "the right reader at the right time". It's got good potential to be a "favorite" for people who don't solely exist in the sensory/physical world but have equal (if not more) weight in more esoteric realms of life and consciousness (and are seeking kindred author/book spirits.)
We live in a world where it's impossible to please everyone even if you live on the metaphorical fence your whole life and so I appreciate anyone who's got guts to be generous with their life and love and shares what they're learning along the way. I'm glad I read this book, but probably had too high of expectations hoping it'd conjure up similar feelings I felt when I first discovered Bach and his book Illusions.
I understand why this book most certainly isn't and couldn't be for everyone...and I don't think this book tries to be, but I can also see how it'd be challenging as an extremely open-minded writer and thinker to not unconsciously try (...and it's so incredibly tempting to try!)
The overall essence and general theme of this book somewhat reminded me of the incredibly short story "The Egg" by Andy Weir. Both stories carry the capacity to really make a mind think, but there's still an unsatisfied hunger for feeling something much more deeply.
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