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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN num: 9780061148484
ISBN number: 0061148482
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: December 01, 2006
Publishing house: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 47744
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More than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach's timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love
'We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!'
'The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.'
'Look in a mirror and one thing's sure: what we see is not who we are.'
'Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.'
'There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.'
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Bestselling author Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairytale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. 'This is a story about a knight who was dying, and the princess who saved his life,' Bach writes in his opening greeting. 'It's a story about beauty and beasts and spells and fortresses, about death-powers that seem and life-powers that are.' Yes, it is all that, and more. On the earthly plane this is about the riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions together even as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering, and whose turn it is to cook. Their love affair and happy ending inspired many enthusiastic fans. Years later, some of these fans were devastated to discover that this match made in heaven didn't manage to stick (the couple are no longer together). But in an Amazon interview, Bach explains that lovers don't have to stay married forever to be lifetime soul mates. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever. --Gail Hudson
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The very first time I read The Bridge Across Forever was in 1991. My joy in learning about the synchronicity of Richard Bach and Leslie Parrish's lives led me to yet one more interesting and challenging point of view. Like lovers who cross paths 20 years earlier without knowing the level of their significance to each other. This is an incredible story of lovers sharing each other's dreams while sleeping and the discovering their completeness when finding their soul mate is the epitome of life's purpose. We should all be so fortunate. Each time I have read this book, I am enlightened and over joyed.
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I'm still amazed at the power of this simple autobiographical narrative to inspire vitriolic rhetoric among the chronically disappointed. I've read dozens of reviews of "Bridge..." that begin with the confession that the reviewer has never met Richard Bach--and knows little or nothing about him beyond his own description of himself--that then proceed with a string of indictments of his character, morals, philosophy, personal integrity, personal history, and his supposed lack of intellectual and literary prowess. Since they are based on little more than Bach's own narrative, it seems to me that these indictments reveal more about the reviewer than the one being reviewed.
I, too, re-read it after a nearly 20-year hiatus, and I agree that Mr. Bach doesn't come off all that well in the book. But remember, this is a SELF-portrait. It is, in fact, one of the most brutally honest portraits of personal frailty and vanity I have ever read. Remember, too, that everything we know about the "beautiful and intelligent" Leslie comes from Richard's own description of her--in contrast to himself. Who among us would be willing to reveal as much of his/her own frailty? The fact that he is willing to portray himself this way in front of the whole world actually gives me hope--in a perverse sort of way. If a guy who did all the things Richard Bach has been accused of doing can still find love and make it work for 20 years--well, then there's still hope for the rest of us.
I don't care a fig that it didn't work out in the long run for the real-life Richard and Leslie. (And I'd like to know Ms. Mitchell's source for her assertion that Richard Bach "left his beautiful and intelligent 'soulmate' after twenty years of marriage because she wanted to live a grownup life and he didn't." As far as I know, Bach simply confirms that they split up because they had different goals--no indication of who left whom, not that it matters, and not that it's anyone's business but theirs. I've never seen anything from Leslie Parrish on the subject. And I agree that we need to hear from Leslie pretty soon if she has anything to say on the subject of Love. She's over 70 years old now, and time is running out.) I don't see how their failure to "make it work" serves as a valid basis on which to dismiss the whole concept of true, abiding, heart-bursting romance.
Let me put it this way: Once upon a time, after much heartache, injury, and despair, someone came up with the idea of putting stop signs at busy intersections in order to prevent needless injury, death, and unhappiness. So, because people sometimes run stop signs, or because the author of the stop sign is killed at a marked intersection, we should yank out stop signs because stop signs don't work? Because WE sometimes fail to come to a complete stop, stop signs are a lie and a dangerous fantasy?
No. And I'll bet I'm every bit as "dented" by adulthood and its failures as Ms. Mitchell is. After all, I've got at least 20 years on her. Nevertheless, I refuse to give up. I'd rather die. We live in a cynical age that warns us to throw away every soaring passion, and every heart's desire. It is WE who are "smug and narcissistic and complacent" in our condemnation of those who refuse to settle for half-a-love, or who fight for a love they know is true--in spite of personal shortcomings.
Richard Bach dared to write a book about soul-smashing love at a time when no one wanted to talk about it, or even acknowledge that such a thing exists. The very fact that we're still talking about it 20 years later is testimony to his courage, insight, and prescience, even in the midst of his personal frailty. What's needed now isn't a bunch of pompous rhetoric about Richard Bach and his supposed failings as a human being. What's needed now is a book about how to pick up the pieces of shipwrecked idealism and hold onto something that raises it's head above this manure pile that passes for "values" in the very first decade of the 21st Century.
This book is as much about Leslie's fight for her love as it is about Richard's vanity and narcissism. And I submit to you, and to everyone reading this lonely message-in-a-bottle, that what we need in this dried-up world of cynicism and self-protection is more--not less--of the honesty and radical idealism of people who want to build bridges "across forever."
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I have read this book some 9 years ago. Lost my very first copy, so ordered it again. Still love it.
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Most of us know the saying that we teach best what we most need to learn. With regard to many of the reviews I've read regarding this book,and others of his with the soulmate theme, many people would say this is true of Richard. But is that so? Didn't Richard advocate being true to one's self and one's feelings most? Even if the feelings weren't convenient or mainstream. And feelings change. Richard is self centered and I really don't think he ever tried to present himself as anything other than that - quite the opposite. He wrote what he felt and thought then- period. He didn't stay with the person he depicted as his soulmate because apparently his feelings and thoughts about the person and the relationship changed and I'll wager Leslie's did too. And in keeping with his philosophy he followed those feelings and thoughts and moved on. And Leslie, being the beautiful person that she is definitely deserves someone being with her who can deeply appreciate and love her and WANT TO BE THERE. Is Richard immature? I think so. But he is sure following his phiosophy of being true to one's self regardless of what I think or you think. I do admire that. And Leslie loved this brillant fickle man knowing he was a brillant fickle man changeable as the wind's direction. After all she must have been aware that he left a wife and 6 children. This being honest and "true" to one's own self can have a sharp edge to it even among soulmates. This outcome is not so foreign to the book's content. It's an interesting book,and the reaction to it is even more interesting. As for me, I believe there are soulmates but no life long guarantees.
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It's not that mushy stuff!
It'a all about a man who actually finds his soulmate and how his soul recognizes her soul... It has a light philosophical content on the subject of souls reconnecting in the subsequent life.
It's beautifully written. And it's a story that most of us dream about in our lifetime.
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