The new age message and Neil Diamond music seem pretty smarmy now. Edgy is in. Hope is out. Cynical is the new tie-dye. But back in the '70s, I read JonathanLivingstonSeagull , lying on the floor in the living room at my parents' home in Onalaska, Wisconsin, listening to Neil Diamond's musical adaptation at top volume -- and it worked. I cried. I thought lofty thoughts and dreamed...
A-Rod finished the postseason with a .365/.500/.808 line. Apparently, this had nothing to do with his being a wonderful ballplayer and everything to do with personal transformation, moral courage and self-actualization. Meet your 2009 playoffs MVP: Freakin' JonathanLivingstonSeagull.No other player has been so afflicted with the terrible pop psychology of sportswriters as , and...
The first grown-up book I ever read cover to cover was “JonathanLivingstonSeagull,” which is about gulls as much as another cherished book of mine, “Watership Down” is about rabbits, but when you’re a snot-nosed 9-year-old kid still moving his lips as he reads Richard Bach’s anthropomorphic allegory was just what a wide-eyed punk [...]
What the heck am I looking at? Is Sir Brooklyn playing paddle ball or volleyball? Is this some sort of reference to JonathanLivingstonSeagull? Does it even matter as you contemplate this white and gold mess? What, exactly , were you thinking, C Manuel Galvez?
... the Rye Endgame Ethan Frome Fahrenheit 451 Frankenstein Great Expectations Hamlet Huckleberry Finn JonathanLivingstonSeagull Lord of the Flies MacBeth Moby Dick Night Of Mice and Men Old Yeller Romeo and Juliet Siddhartha The Chosen The Crucible The Foundation The Fountainhead The Good Earth The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby The Hounds of Baskerville The Iliad The Lottery...
... artefact; writing, on some level, is always writing about writing). A book like Richard Bach's JonathanLivingstonSeagull , the 70s, world-conquering, self-help classic, foregrounds the allegorical aspect so much that it is clearly no longer really a novella about a big bird, but rather fully an attempt to say something (something rather cheesey, for sure) about life's big...
