has anyone read both richard bach's old writing [bridge across forever, one, jonathan, etc] and also read any of his new work, the ferret fables? i saw one of the fables listed on amazon.com and read some scathing reviews saying that the author had lost what bit of sanity he originally had. are they that bad, that incoherent? or are they just in the bach-language we learned in the early books?
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Charlotte
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Mon, March 22, 2004 - 7:40 PMI'm having a brain freeze, did he write the one about a light plane pilot? Written in the first person? At least 10 yrs old? -
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Tue, March 23, 2004 - 4:03 AMIllusions, the adventures of a reluctant messiah.
That was him.
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 1:59 PMI hate to be a buzzkill, but I never really understood the appeal of Richard Bach. It seemed to be to be hollow new-age claptrap. Somebody gave me "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" when I was ten, and I remember reading it and thinking "You've got to be kidding me."
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 5:05 PMyou haven't killed my buzz- I have read some Bach- never got too excited about him-- though I remember him coming up with a friend recently -
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Fri, April 16, 2004 - 2:14 PMmmmm think I might be one with Opus on this.... never did get why JLS was so popular - it seemed pretty shallow and pretentious to me - and that was a long time ago. Perhaps it isn't indicative of Bach's other work? -
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Fri, April 16, 2004 - 2:56 PMone of the funniest things i ever saw was while "summering" in imnaha, oregon (pop.48), where there was no television reception and the closest library was 36 miles away in enterprise, Jonathon Livingston Seagull was shortened within the annals of Readers Digest. Yes, shortened! Now this was 1972, and I was 13 and I still thought it was too basic for me.
Why it became a bestseller comes down to some sort of LCD rule. -
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Tue, July 26, 2005 - 5:55 AMAh, but the film version had a soundtrack by Neil Diamond - you can't beat that! -
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 11:39 PMYes, the soundtrack was pretty good.
The movie was awful, though! I rate bad movies by how much beer I need to get through them, and that one was about two cases worth!
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Re: richard bach and his ferrets
Fri, February 17, 2006 - 11:07 AMI read JLS when I was in the sixth grade and though it was the most profound thing ever produced. Wouldn't touch it today. Unfortunately it meanders too much, and to a 12 year old it might seem deep and meaningful, but to the same person 31 years later it just seems like literary Sominex.
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Re: richard bach and his ferrets
Thu, December 2, 2004 - 11:00 PMI met Mr. Bach when I was in junior high. Our advanced placement english class invited him to speak (for all 13 of us) and we spent half the day with him. He was really cool. It was a long time ago, but I remember really appreciating what he had to say. I'm a hopeless romantic - I really liked Bridge Across Forever. (Though somebody told me he got a divorce??? Not sure if that is true or not??? Anyone?)
I didn't even realize he had new stuff out. I'll have to check it out... Anyone have a review yet?
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Re: richard bach and his ferrets
Thu, February 16, 2006 - 10:55 AMHis "WRITER FERRETS: CHASING THE MUSE" is one of my favorite books! I have read it several times, already! I found it to be very cute, and very inspiring to an aspiring author like myself. ;-)
I've also read some of his other Ferret series books (Air Ferrets Aloft, and Rancher Ferrets...), and I think they're all very cute. Not heavy lit, so good when you need something short.
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Thu, February 16, 2006 - 11:04 AMI read the Seagull book when I was 16 high so I can't really judge it from that , but I do remember thinking that it was hokey. -
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Sun, November 26, 2006 - 12:13 PMI read Illusions when I was 18 and I was backpacking across Maui. It was huge for me at the time. There is a special place in my heart for that book. As for his other novels I am not a fan in the least.
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