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Title: Stranger to the Ground by Richard Bach ISBN: 0-440-20658-8 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Flying, not Levitation
Comment: This is one of the best "anorack books" ever written, a descriptive masterpiece of what its like to fly a fighter bomber alone on a cold night. Its obsessively detailed, and its the detail that gives the account its power.
Richard Bach's much vaunted 'philosophy' is almost totally absent; instead we have the musings of a lonely, thoughtful, slightly anxious young man who may have to go to war in a few weeks. For its time (around the Cuban missile crisis?) its an astonishingly mature, liberal persective on his present and the future. Indeed, one wonders how well 2nd Lt Bach, a part-time Air Guard pilot, fitted into the professional military.
By the 1970s much of Bach's work had become pretentious and shallow, the flying had been replaced by levitation and seagull parables. But as his first book, "Stranger to the Ground" is earnest, brave and painfully honest. If you like aircraft and flying, or like reading about them, this book is a must.
Rating: 5
Summary: Few can fly or write as well as Richard Bach.
Comment: I first bought "Stranger To The Ground" at it's second printing during the early 1970s. I don't remember why -- Bach was not yet popular as the author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" or "There's No Such Place As Far Away." Maybe it was the cover illustration of the silver F-84F Thunderstreak Bach flew over Europe as part of the Air National Guard during the Berlin Crisis. I always was a sucker for a good looking airplane. Whatever it was, I soon realized this was no ordinary tale and that Bach was no ordinary writer. Years [and hundreds of books and authors] later, I feel the same. My copy of "Stranger" is worn and dog-eared [I've just purchased a new one here at Amazon.com]. I've read it to my kids and they've asked me to read it to them again. I've picked it up, time and time again, from the same shelf that holds his other marvelous books, and paged through it, captivated all over again. I sometimes wonder how many great pilots are flying, right now, solely because they read this book when they were still too young to drive. I'll bet they thank Richard Bach every time their gear lifts off the tarmac.
Rating: 5
Summary: Haunting allegory
Comment: This book is a very haunting allegory about Richard Bach's ordeal with his own mortality. Deals with facing death, the great unknown, and all the fears and anxieties that go along with topics we prefer not to think about. Reading it will open your heart and touch your soul, and stay with you long after the book is finished.
Arlene Millman
author of BOOMERANG - A MIRACLE TRILOGY
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Title: A Gift of Wings by Richard Bach ISBN: 0440204321 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory by Richard Bach ISBN: 0440108268 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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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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Title: One by Richard Bach ISBN: 044020562X Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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