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Title: The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory by Richard Bach ISBN: 0-440-10826-8 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (111 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: More of the same?
Comment: Not being a consistant reader,very few topics peak my interest. When the often overused word "soulmate" comes up though I often follow. Having experienced meeting a soulmate once (so far)in my 41 years is by far a gift. Before reading this book I did read the reveiws and that Richard had indeed divorced his soulmate. Not passing judgement I read with eager anticipation of past experiences of love deeper than any words could describe. I was not happy that when shopping for the book ,it was in the fiction area. I would want to hear truths and facts not opinion's of how it should be,after all I have been there. The book was a slow start and I waited to be awakened to that wonderful place deeper than the heart and harder to find than bigfoot! I did not find this in a well written but rather vanilla book about the faults and convictions of love between two people. I am not faulting Richard for the later divorce as life is a constant reminder of stress and balence. Its not easy for anyone. I did catch a deep appreciation of preserverance from Leslie and a rather immature Richard throughout there romance. There are no answers when it comes to "the five ways to find your soulmate" if there was we would all be happy and there. This book lacked the deepness that I felt in a relationship with my soulmate. I understand we are all different,that my story can not be his. Perhaps another read will give me more food for thought? I will give it a try. Good luck finding your soulmate he/she does exsist,often there are meny people that could be in ones life time. Good luck to Richard and Leslie.........peace
Rating: 5
Summary: simply amazing
Comment: I've been pretty much hooked on Richard Bach after i read Illusions. This is the next one i picked up. this book goes into the search for the perfect soulmate, how close we can come to destroying our chances, and how great the reward is if we succeed.
i'm 17, and i've never really had anyone close to me on the romantic level. there have been girls, but none have seen things the way i do, and some have just plain hated me. this book is the kind that, just like Illusions, will give you hope for the future, and maybe make light of mistakes you've made in the past.
Bach writes in the simply to understand, yet very deep way i've always enjoyed. again he uses airplanes and piloting a lot in metaphors and comparisons, and it works out perfectly. i know people say this a lot, but this book is very easy to get into, put very hard to put down.
if you like any of Bach's other books, you'll love this. i recommend this to everyone who thinks that love maybe the reason we are all here, or anyone who needs inspiration that there is someone out there for you, waiting.
Rating: 1
Summary: Sacchirine, Self-absorbed and Trite
Comment: Like several other reviewers in this forum, I found this to be one of the most annoying, inspid, flakey books I've ever read. I too picked it up as it came much too highly recommended by a good friend. I loved Jonathon Livingston Seagull when I was just a kid but alas, it seems as though Richard Bach still hasn't grown up while the rest of us have. The character of Leslie Parrish nailed it with the long letter she wrote him and he would have done well to heed her words of warning. He has to be one of the most self-absorbed, confused, cloying lotharios in literature. I too found myself skimming through entire sections combing for the meat of the story, which is simply about the relationship he was constantly threatening to undermine with the much more enlightened Ms. Parrish. Underneath it all I kept thinking that while on the surface Mr. Bach was talking about silly astral projection and such, he must have been going to sleep at night thinking what a real ladies man he was. There was this sense of him feeling very sanctimonious and superior about himself and his views. Awful stuff. The story doesn't actually begin until Chapter 30 with Leslie's poignant letter to him, skip all the pseudo-spirituality and overly-long airplane tangents at the beginning of the book if you can. All along the way, Mr. Bach consistantly breaks one of the cardinal rules of writing over and over again: "show, don't tell". In any case, Richard Bach never got out of playing house and make-believe with the much more realistic, giving and pragmatic Leslie, what a loss. I've never in my life not finished a book but with three more chapters to go I finally had to pitch the book in the trash lest it somehow jump off on me like an unwanted strain of intellectual bacteria. I want to believe that soulmates are out there but Bach's book didn't do it for me. Is it any wonder his marriage to the woman ended in divorce? This is not the kind of destiny I welcome. I hope this man will someday mature and write another book that will convince us. Eventually I found my solace in the love story of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, which was like spending time with a dear, old friend.
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Title: One by Richard Bach ISBN: 044020562X Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach ISBN: 0440204887 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach ISBN: 0380012863 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 January, 1976 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: There's No Such Place as Far Away by Richard Bach ISBN: 0385319274 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 12 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Running from Safety : An Adventure of the Spirit by Richard Bach ISBN: 0385315287 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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