Topic suggested by Athavan on Mon Mar 15 12:56:37 .
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This thread is for both people who know and dont know about this writer. Those who know can send in you point of view on him and those who dont can benifit from them.For a start we'll discuss his best novels jonathan livingston seagull and the bridge across forever - two completely different viewponts on life brought together by a single word 'flight'.

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• From: Cristina Cal (@ 213.30.33.254) on: Fri Sep 6 17:51:35
  
  I'm from Portugal and I'm 18. I like very much Richard's books. My favourite is "the bridge across forever?. I´d learn many things with this book. Richard Bach teached me to fly in many ways, but mostly he made me believe that there is somewhere in this world the soul i look for everyday. I'd like to contact him very much. If someone could make my dream come true i would be glad and grateful. Thanks anyway
  
  
• From: donaldshimoda (@ 1cust68.tnt5.auburn.wa.da.uu.net) on: Tue Sep 10 00:13:56
  
  well if i ever run in to him ill tell him to post here :) lucky me being in washington
  
  
• From: sanju (@ ) on: Sun Nov 10 22:52:04
  
  i read bridges across foreever with great enthu. but i believe that r.b. has since divorced. this takes away the credibility of this novel.
  
  
• From: sanju (@ ) on: Sun Nov 10 22:52:13
  
  i read bridges across foreever with great enthu. but i believe that r.b. has since divorced. this takes away the credibility of the novel.
  
  
• From: Sergio Lub (@ astound-66-234-201-85.ca.astound.net) on: Sat Nov 23 14:46:33
  
  Dear Richard,
  
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• From: Valdis (@ ppp137-205.dialup.mtu-net.ru) on: Sat Nov 30 01:14:03
  
  Óãàð!!!!!!!
  
  
• From: Jeremy PEay (@ dt048n2d.san.rr.com) on: Fri Dec 13 22:09:38
  
  Does anyone know where I can get a signed copy of jonathan livingston seagull. I would like to get my hands on one.
  
  
  thanks
  Jeremy
  
  
• From: anna (@ host40-223.pool80116.interbusiness.it) on: Tue Jan 7 14:03:02
  
  read no place is too far away!
  
  
• From: anna (@ host40-223.pool80116.interbusiness.it) on: Tue Jan 7 14:03:11
  
  read no place is too far away!
  
  
• From: ESCC (@ cache-dr10.proxy.aol.com) on: Wed Feb 12 19:32:09
  
  I was wondering where I could get a signed First edition Johnathon Livingston Seagull. If anyone could tee me it would be great! I love his work.
  
  
• From: ESCC (@ cache-dr10.proxy.aol.com) on: Wed Feb 12 19:32:59
  
  sorry that should be tell
  
  
• From: Dan (@ cache-mtc-ah06.proxy.aol.com) on: Sat Feb 22 02:22:06
  
  I don't have a signed first edition copy of JLS but I do have a signed (with hand drawn seagulls) copy of "Illusions" which I received directly from the author while refueling his airplane in 1976! I doubt, though, that you have enough money to motivate me to part with the book!
  
  
• From: Richard (@ cache-rl04.proxy.aol.com) on: Thu Mar 6 20:25:40
  
  Hello, I just thought you would like to know that a radio interview with Richard Bach about his book "Running From Safety" is available to listen to for free During March 2003 at http://www.synergyshow.com a program showcase. It is fun to listen to.
  Thanks,
  Richard
  
  
• From: kavitha (@ proxyle01.ext.ti.com) on: Tue Jul 29 02:22:02
  
  Hi
  Do u get the story of "THe bridge Across foreever" On internet.If any could u plz send me the link
  
  
• From: Julia (@ d-237-214.stlucia.uq.net.au) on: Sat Aug 2 22:00:52 EDT 2003
  
  when beautiful people in this world use their creativity to spread and share that beauty, they are doing the highest good for humanity. Richard Bach is one such man... I am blessed to know many others!
  
  
• From: Vandhiya (@ lan-202-144-37-151.maa.sify.net) on: Thu Aug 14 07:36:33 EDT 2003
  
  mmm..inspiring piece...
  ultimately wat people get out of this medley of thoughts depends upon individual maturity and grasp.. bcos v always relate anything with something that v experienced... Difficulty may mean exams for a school kid, gals for a teenager, job for an adult.. similarly flying may mean anything..the beauty of his work lies in his ability to maintain the charm... lack of nasty things... and the generality of ideas... thats wat makes his books likeable for a teenager as well as for a old chap..
  these kind of books hv to b read at each stage of life...perhaps to know ourselves better!
  
  
  
  
• From: Yria (@ dialin-207-112-31-136.tor.primus.ca) on: Mon Aug 25 12:25:45 EDT 2003
  
  We have a great and active RB message board. Visit us:
  http://rbach.proboards4.com/
  
  
  
• From: rjs (@ 1cust200.tnt1.bowling-green.ky.da.uu.net) on: Sat Sep 27 15:08:30
  
  the biggest question that i have for him if he could only answer it himself is what if you have found your soulmate but dont see eye to eye on religion?
  
  
• From: pratheesh (@ 61.1.242.124) on: Tue Oct 7 08:19:32 EDT 2003
  
  Hi rjs
  Soulmate and Bach???!!!
  I wished to gainsay when someone told me that
  Mr.Richard divorced his wife!!!
  Any way the ways of words and the ways of life..sometimes differ even to the author of eteral solutions!
  
  cabinbee@yahoo.com
  
  
• From: Deepanjolie (@ 61.11.21.185) on: Wed Oct 15 00:56:32 EDT 2003
  
  "Jonathan.." is an easy,breezy (no pun on that) read which helps a searching soul to connect with his intrinsic strength whilst making the reader aware of life,in the emotive perspective and showing us the greater picture.Highly motivational:the mental and transcendental journey of identifying who we are and the possibilitie(s) of who we can be!
  "Bridge.."is for those times in our lives when we need to get reassured of the fragile and transient gift of love.Love,in the purest sense,like the protagonists achieved,was a result of mastery over their need to be always right or beleived to be so,and sharing and accomodating each other in their own space.Remarkable in simplicity,with interlacings of humour which make one softly chuckle and feel gentle within for the grace and flow of beautiful emotions.Also empowering in the wisdom of portraying differences and loving without needing to possess those we love.
  To be read by those who love or want to love freely,feel oneness with the greatest power of the cosmos:Love,and who can overcome the need to reason why Richard and Leslie had to get divorced(in social and legal terms)which then will not let them get discouraged about the credibility of the writer or their own need to come across a love that simple and profound.
  Love neither begins with nor perishes with a legal document or time and space.And when we cannot see and feel it,it still lives on,perhaps in another sphere,waiting to be believed in again.
  Have Faith!
  
  
• From: J.Jegatheva (@ 202.151.192.25) on: Wed Oct 15 06:29:46 EDT 2003
  
  Hey I am a huge Richard Bach fan, and I even wrote a script and performed a piece from 'The Bridge Across Forever' in a solo acting drama competition.
  
  Anyway, I am from Malaysia and I wrote to Richard Bach when I was about 15 years old (I am now 30). I wrote to him as a lark, and to my utter surprise, he replied in a personalized post card addressed to me in Malaysia from Richard Bach in the US, where he wrote to me on how I could fulfill my dreams.
  
  Would anyone be interested in this... sorry for the way this sounds but I am trying to raise money for my kids future ?
  
  
• From: pratheesh (@ 61.1.242.75) on: Tue Oct 21 06:00:56 EDT 2003
  
  Hi Jegatheva,
  Great to hear your enthusiastic leap and its reply from Bach himself. Congrats.!
  Bach seldom conducts chat room discussions (ofcourse under preassure from his publishers) and you can join the group when the next chat session turns up (no body is sure about that) You can search the net editions of Washington or New York Times for the details if that happens.
  By the way fulfilling dreams is a hot cake. Can easily sell the book, but I was so interested in his style of presentation and sincerity in work.” Jonathan" has been an eternal inspiration to many around the world. I was more thrilled by the description of the flight and the world seen under. That was simply great. Later I came to know that Bach was previously a US Fighter pilot, answering the secret behind the exhilarating narration of flights and "the bird's eye view" picture of earth under.
  
  I request you to read Paulo Coehlo's novels especially "The Alchemist". Chasing the dreams is always a difficult job when fate turns up as the protagonist! . Alchemist will give you few good answers
  And of course questions too.
  Take care
  and very nice to meet you.
  
  
• From: Kat Doyle (@ ) on: Mon Mar 8 15:45:16
  
  I think I may have read all of Bach's books. I wouldn't have thought it mattered to anyone, but I gave what a Christian would call a testimony today - I witnessed that I am, but for the grace of God...and Richard S. Bach. Which, from a distance looks like "Richard's Back"...which at the time would have been a Godsend. Sounds pretty uhm ...fanatical but except for the occaisional quote - I haven't read anything by him, or even discussed the impact his understanding of the world has had on me - to anyone prior to today. I only did so for anothers' benefit, because what I experienced in 1979 would have been an emotional and intellectual overload whithout having the child-like wonder that the book "Illusions" inspired in me...and the hope that even though my father was deceased and could no longer protect me...I had to believe that I carried the best he had to offer...whith the innocence and belief of a child I soared to new levels of understanding and be-ing because I believed him. In retrospect, reading that book was an affirmation that turned into a proclamation that kept me alive and thriving - flying by the "seat of my pants" during a time of tremendous adversity...and by doing so, I became a serious student of life - eventually leaving everyone scratching their head and reconsidering all things spiritual. When I think of that book I smile because without it Life would still be mundane and rooted; I might simply have chosen not to go there out of selfishness and fear. Today, and everyday - I'm flying with my Master and learning Life to It's fullest. More than Thanks, I guess - if I could - I'd tell R.S.B. that I know where the rocks are now because he taught me a new way of seeing; I call it my "child-like perspective" and I am walking on water with it.
  
  
  
• From: b (@ bess-proxy.trin.edu) on: Sat Apr 3 07:34:43 EST 2004
  
  sea gulls ultimate