Juan Salvador Gaviota: Jonathan Livington Seagull

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Simply Great !!.......2005-02-18

It's a beautifull story, I've read it five times and I never get tired of it, With the story of Juan Sebatian the sea gull who learned to fly, It will teach you to figth for your dreams, that you can always improve and become a better person seeking perfection.

Once you start reading you won't stop until you finish.

Juan Salvador Gaviota (Millenium Series) (Millenium Series)

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me da vuelo
Great book
HERMOSO
Gracias a lo sublime e inmortal de un ser humano
Gracias a lo sublime e inmortal de un ser humano

Juan Salvador Gaviota (Millenium Series) (Millenium Series)
Richard Bach
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El principito (Spanish)
Ilusiones
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Piense y hágase rico & Como un Hombre Piensa Asi es Su Vida
Illusions

ASIN: 8466612491

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Flight is the metaphor that brings meaning to this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ultimately the fable emphasizes the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if one's flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds such ambition threatening. By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan earns the ultimate reward of transcendence. Dreamy seagull photographs provide ideal illustrations for this spirituality classic.

Hay quien obedece sus propias reglas porque se sabe en lo cierto; quien experimenta un especial placer en hacer algo bien; quien adivina algo más que lo que sus ojos ven; quien prefiere volar a comprar y comer. Todos ellos harán amistad duradera con Juan Salvador Gaviota. Ésta es una extraordinaria fábula cuyo mensaje intemporal y universal ha calado hondo en varias generaciones de lectores.

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me da vuelo.......2007-02-27

As means to improve Spanish, my husband bought this book for me and read it aloud to me. It is a marvelous way to study Spanish. The story is simple and moving in any language. It is really a short-story that has sufficient illustrations to make it appear as if it were a novel. The language is not too complex, but challenging for beginner readers or non-native readers.
I read it the first time at age 12. It is an appropriate book for a person with a middle school reading level.
Most importantly, this book gives me flight, motivation and the desire to do just a little better in every daily task. More than a short story, it has a spark of the divine woven in the words. Simply wonderful.

Great book.......2007-01-18

Amazing book of encouragement for all that no matter who you are you can always make yourself better.

HERMOSO.......2003-04-25

ESTA HISTORIA ESTA ESCRITA CON PINCELES. LA SUPREMA BELLEZA QUE EXPRESAN SUS SUBLIMES PAGINAS ADORNA EL PENSAMIENTO CON TERNURA. JUAN SALVADOR ESTA MUY ADENTRO DE CADA UNO DE NOSOTROS Y NOS RECUERDA QUE CON SOLO ATREVERNOS A SOÑAR PODREMOS LEVANTARNOS SOBRE LAS ALAS DEL AMANECER PARA VER LA VERDE ESPERANZA DE VIDA EN LIBERTAD. ESTE LIBRO ES UN CLASICO Y SIEMPRE LO SERA PORQUE ESTA ESCRITO CON INGENIO Y PERFECCION.

Gracias a lo sublime e inmortal de un ser humano.......2003-04-13

Muero desaparezco y renazco cada vez que leo este libro, rejuvenecer y redescubrir la esperanza son algunos de los tantos tesoros que brinda. Personalmente, uno de los tres libros que más han impactado mi vida, los otros dos, "El pequeño principe" (Antoine de Saint-Exupery), y "Siddartha" por (Herman Hesse) Tienen la semejanza de ser cortos sencillos, profundos y eternos.
Como todo en esta vida, algunos lo entenderán, otros no, y aquellos que no lo entiendan, tendrán sus opiniones, juicios y críticas; y se preguntarán como puede haber seres tan diferentes a ellos. Estas personas son aquellas gaviotas que aún componen el bandado de la sociedad, que viven primero que todo para sobrevivir; mas cada una de ellas posee el potencial de aprender a volar y encontrar que la vida es mucho mas que el placer que se busca y el hambre que se alimenta.

Ojalá y que algún dia todos despertemos! Así... volaremos todos juntos.

Gracias a lo sublime e inmortal de un ser humano.......2003-04-13

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Johnathon Livingston Seagull in Spanish

When The King Comes Home (A College of Magics)
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Well written but still a disappointment

When the dead come home

Slow, but brilliant

Lovely writing style but not enough to please me

Stopped reading 58/236 pages through
When The King Comes Home (A College of Magics)
Caroline Stevermer
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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When the King comes home... miracles will occur, the rivers will run with wine, all wishes will be granted. The kingdom of Aravis believes its beloved King Julian, dead 200 years, will return in the hour of its greatest need--and surely that hour is now. The current king is ancient, witless, and dying without an heir, the sinister Prince Bishop controls both church and state, and rebellion is brewing in the provinces.

Hail Rosmer has no interest in politics or legends. The daughter of a rural wool merchant, Hail wishes only to be a great artist. And her wish is granted, it seems, when she is sent to the city of Aravis to apprentice with Madame Carriera and study the works of King Julian's artist, the infamous Maspero. But Hail's fate is forever changed--as changed as the fate of Aravis itself--when she sees a man who looks exactly like King Julian. Marvels and wonders there will be--and events far darker and more dangerous than were ever imagined in legend.

When the King Comes Home is a smart, sly, unpredictable, and fascinating fantasy that lives up to the high standards of Caroline Stevermer's critically acclaimed previous novels, A College of Magics and River Rats. --Cynthia Ward

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When the King IV comes home . . .Good King Julian of Aravis has been dead for two hundred years, but his kingdom still misses him. The current occupant of the throne is old and witless and has no heir. The true ruler of Aravis is the powerful Prince Bishop, who controls both church and state. When the King comes home, all wishes will be granted.Hail Rosmer wants to be an artist-not an ordinary artist, but a great artist, as great as the fabled Maspero, who painted the famous Archangel altarpiece in the Palace of Aravis and made Good King Julian's crown. When the King comes home, all dreams will be made real.One day, Hail sees a man catching fish from the river and eating it raw. The man's clothes are antique in fashion. He looks exactly like King Julian of Aravis. And there begins an adventure that takes Hail and her enigmatic companion from palace to wilderness to battlefield and teaches her, and the rest of Aravis, what happens when the King comes home in sober reality.

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Well written but still a disappointment.......2005-06-16

I generally love Caroline Stevermer. Her books are so well written and so subtle. They are not fast paced. If that is what you are looking for in a book, you'll be disappointed. But they are well crafted and the language is almost poetic. This book was no exception to that.

That being said, I was very disappointed with the story. I felt as though I never really connected to the characters. One aspect of Stevermer's books that I enjoy is the subtlety of the romances. This book had no romance. I kept waiting for it, and nothing ever happened. Ditto for the humor. Normally there is plenty of quiet humor, little one liners that help to ease the tension of the plot. I think there was maybe one line that made me laugh out loud and think "Yeah, this is what I like about Stevermer." But that was it. And there were a couple of questions that were raised in the book that never seemed to be answered, a couple of characters that she started to develop and then just dropped.

I read the book all in one sitting. But I was left feeling very empty at the end.

When the dead come home.......2005-04-26

This sprightly, original fantasy concerns necromancy and an apprentice artist who drives everyone into an advanced state of irritability with her determination to experience true art.

The setting is a finely detailed post-Renaissance somewhere-in-Europe city. Readers of Stevermer's "A College of Magics" will recognize some of the place names, but this book takes off on its own with the very likeable Hail Rosmer and her fellow apprentices.

Hail becomes obsessed with the deceased artist, Maspero who was interested in magic as well as art. She discovers a gold medallion in the palace archives that Maspero supposedly cast, with a portrait of Good King Julian on one side, the obverse being a view of the city of Aravis. She pesters the archivist into letting her sketch both sides of the medallion, then makes a wax copy, and casts it over and over again in bronze until she is satisfied with the result.

The young apprentice is very pleased with her medallion until one of her jealous colleagues accuses her of counterfeiting. What could any self-respecting heroine do but clobber her accuser over the head with her heavy market basket. She then flees from the city, not knowing whether she killed her fellow apprentice.

Four days into her flight along the river, it begins to rain and Hail takes shelter under a bridge. There she sees a ragged tramp catch a mudskip with his bare hands and eat it raw. This doesn't bother her half as much as the fact that the man is a dead ringer for good King Julian--who departed from life over 200 years ago. She recognizes him from her medallion.

Now we're into the sorcerous part of the book, with a magician as equally nasty as any that came out of "A College of Magics." Hail plays an important role in the battles and necromantic manipulations that follow, including the recasting of King Julian's crown (again, the original was fashioned by her favorite artist, Maspero).

"When the King Comes Home" has a relatively happy ending if the reader is into artistic fulfillment rather than romance. The wicked are punished, the good deceased sail away into a starlit diminuendo of love and death. Hail's masterpiece, "When the King Comes Home" is ---well, I don't want to give away the ending. Read this subtle, graceful fantasy. There's nothing else like it.

Slow, but brilliant.......2005-03-16

Many of the other reviewers have complained that this book moves too slowly. If you go into it expecting a rollicking adventure, then you'll be disappointed. This is not a novel of swords and sorcery. It's not something that you could pull from transcripts of your last D&D campaign. And that is very much in its favor.

Stevermer has painted a picture of the life of her main character. She is not your typical fantasy heroine, nor is she a wilting flower waiting to be saved by the big strong men. She's an individual, and the joy of the book is learning about Hail.

The book expects more of you, too. Unless you're familiar with Renaissance Europe, and have a more than passing acquaintance with the Arthurian legends, you'll find many of the references obtuse. But for the rest of us, Caroline Stevermer has given us a rich world full of memorable characters, and my only disappointment is that the book was too short.

Lovely writing style but not enough to please me.......2005-02-23

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good critic. I enjoy plays and books that people will think are horrible. It's not very often that I give something 2 stars but I am willing to with this book.

Her writing style is gorgeous but not very fast paced. I expected a different sort of storyline because I misunderstood the dust cover. I didn't feel a strong connection with any of the characters and couldn't relate with any of them very well. Few of the characters seemed to care greatly for Hail. She often seemed foisted off onto people who tolerated her. Throughout the book people complained of her being too chatty but I did not find her so until I neared the end. Some readers complain that the book has a slow start and that's true. However it does get more exciting as it goes on. Despite this improvement the characters seemed too bland to me.

Stopped reading 58/236 pages through.......2004-04-16

I started reading this book expecting an adventure but getting to about page 60 and having to put a 236-page book down is pretty sad. The plot just doesn't move. If this was a biography it would actually be quite interesting, but taken as a fantasy novel? At first I thought maybe she was just trying to get more into Hail's character, but I found that I really did not know that much about Hail. I knew her fellow apprentices better. I put this book down on page 58. I have only ever not finished two books in my entire life; they were Homecoming by Cynthia Voit (sp?), and The One Armed Queen by Jane Yolen. I don't recommend either. It pains me greatly to not finish a book. The whole idea of the book would have been wonderful were the plot interesting in the first 20 pages, and it was in a way, but maybe only because I like to draw and she was becoming and apprentice to an artist. If you prefer biographies and are looking into going into fantasy books I could recommend this book, but that is considering that I really don't like biographies.

Sorry for rambling.

WHEN THE KING COMES HOME
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WHEN THE KING COMES HOME
Caroline Stevermer
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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ASIN: B000OTPBLK

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When the King Comes Home

Manufacturer: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0606292179

When chickens come home to roast: are America's poultry kings too chicken to listen to Catholic bishops? (margin notes).(poultry industry)(Brief Article): An article from: U.S. Catholic
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When chickens come home to roast: are America's poultry kings too chicken to listen to Catholic bishops? (margin notes).(poultry industry)(Brief Article): An article from: U.S. Catholic
Kevin Clarke
Manufacturer: Claretian Publications
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Release Date: 2005-07-29

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Long Voyage Back: A Novel
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A Real Page-Turner

Worth reading

Good book

Just like you were there & very believable!

A great read.

Long Voyage Back: A Novel
Luke Rhinehart
Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
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A Real Page-Turner.......2006-02-10

I love survival and "end of civilization" stories, and this one doesn't disappoint. I also love sailing adventures and this is a good one.

Rather than using a multiple-viewpoint method that so many disaster novels utilize, with characters all over the world, this story sticks with the tight-knit group of survivors on the trimaran. The author does a good job in describing the sailing aspects and the challenges of crew interaction in a manner that will be appreciated by sailors and landlubbers alike.

The nuclear holocaust angle is well done, and how people react to the terror. There is a good balance of on-water vs. on-land action in the book.

Fast-paced adventure, hard to put the book down.

Great character development. "Olly" is a treasure.

Minor gripe #1: some of the fighting is a bit theatrical. At one point, somebody is actually knocked out by receiving a quick karate-chop to the neck. God I hate the knockout-punch myth as it appears in books and movies.

Minor gripe #2: Since the boat is a trimaran (three-hulled) sailing vessel, WHY IS THE COVER PHOTO OF A SLOOP???!!!!!!!

Somebody really screwed the pooch in the publishing house by putting a photo of a SLOOP on the cover of a novel that takes place on a multihull! To make matters worse, it was published by the Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, MD!! I bet the author still gets shudders over that to this day. Unbelievable error to anyone who sails.

Great read -- recommended.

Worth reading.......2004-04-24

Not a bad read based upon its limited scope. The majority of the action takes place upon a trimaran sailboat in Atlantic and Caribbean waters. It has a well done believable beginning as the "war clouds gather." The escape from a suddenly desperate surviving populace is tense and exciting. Sailing away from the devastation and desperation is a different approach than I have seen in most similar novels. Good character development also. I got a little tried of being seasick, but I guess they were on the boat alot. I've read all the apocalyptic books on all the Amazon lists and this one is worth the time. The ending was rather disappointing but getting there was fun. Blurb: A tight, simple, staightforward story of survival told in style with adequate character development and a lip biting plot using effective linear movement.

Good book.......2003-12-30

I read this a few weeks ago while on a "nuclear war/end of the world" reading frenzy.
As a longtime fan of The Diceman and The Diceman Returns, I found this book a very pleasant change in genre and style of writing for typical Rhinehart stuff.

Just like you were there & very believable!.......2003-11-06

Although this book was written in 1983, it is just as scary and applicable today. Rhinehart wrote a very realistic book about nuclear holocaust that could still happen, except probably not by the Russians against the US. The scenario of thieves, pirates and desperate & fanatical people just trying to survive makes you feel like you are going thru it yourself. A horrible prospect, to say the least. I liked the idea to attempt to sail away and survive off the sea. Having just finished this great book, I feel like I was right there and part of the group. I wish there was a sequel. This is one book that is worth the read & hard to put down.

A great read........2003-01-27

I read this book when I was high-school. I am *cough* 34 now. But, I will never forget this book, or rather the way I felt about it while reading it.
It is a book about nuclear war and it's results...but more than that, I remember when I read it, I was almost in a panic. I read it when we were in the throes of the cold war in the late '80's and it would give anyone the willies to read a very realistic book about a nuclear halocaust around that time...but it was different than that....I actually FELT like this was really happening when I read the book. A strange, and undescribable feeling that we were all doomed.
So needless to say, this book, to me was very powerful, and well written.
I just happened to think about it today and thought maybe it would be here...and voila! Amazon never fails!!

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Through a dazzling series of visions, Michael J. Roads explores the nature of energy, the foundations of personal power, and the frontiers of reality. Join Michael as he enters the Guidestone and meets the great god Pan, who becomes his guide in a fast-paced exploration of nature and consciousness. Initiations provided by Pan, Michael merges his consciousness with that of water, plant, mineral, and animal. Superbly crafted, Journey Into Nature offers a deeper understanding of the oneness of all life.

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Great read -- much TRUTH.......2005-08-07

Thank you, Michael, for sharing the Truth's you learned at that time of your life. Powerful to read... I hope you'll do more workshops in the USA. Your message(s) need to be heard! Peace, A Santa Fe fan

Nature from the inside.......2000-08-12

This book is another installment in the journey of a contemporary mystic, Michael Roads. In this fascinating account, he describes how he came to be a "participant in Nature". He meets the god Pan, who acts as his guide. Under Pan's tutelage, Roads merges his consciousness successively with water, minerals, plants, animals, and weather. The result is what seems like a description of Nature from the inside. The cynic will find not one thing believable in this entire book, but for those who can read it with an open mind, the book offers profound insights into Nature. I highly recommend this book to anyone whose primary experience of the Sacred is through Nature.

Trails of Laughter/ Trails of Tears: A Spiritual Journey Into the American Wilderness

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Trails of Laughter/ Trails of Tears: A Spiritual Journey Into the American Wilderness

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