The tale of a seagull who transcends the crowd mentality through ever faster and higher flight. A lovely little book, and quite inspirational if you choose to read it that way.

I spy someone with this on their wishlist... :o)

And that someone is meeee!

Thanks you very very much Ermintrude75! And thanks also for the lovely Christmas Card ;o)

Having realised that this is such a short book, I don't know why I haven't read it earlier :-o

Anyway, I'll start it either tonight or tomorrow.

I quite enjoyed this book, although I think I may have missed some of the 'meaning' contained within it. I got the whole "flying" thing, and the seagulls going to what I assume is Heaven (or a version of it), but I'm not sure if there was something else within it which I was supposed to 'get'...

And me being me, I'd have prefered colour photography, but that's just me :O)

This is on someone's Wish List, so will be sending it sometime this week (hopefully).

i got this in the post today from spike1972. will probably read it when i finish Chasing Moneymaker.

well, i was feeling really low today and decided i needed to read something a little more inspirational than my current read (The Tin Drum), so Jonathan Livingston Seagull was it. (incidetnally, I am still not finished with Chasing Moneymaker, which has been sitting on my bookshelf for almost a year now waiting to be finished). Anyway, as a fable it was okay. Not the best animal allegory I've read, but I'm sure not the worst. If the 1970s had an effluvia all their own, this one reeked of it. Still, seagulls are cute and there were laods of photos.

i sent this as a secret santa gift to australia, and unfrotunately it was in my mail when i got back from the USA last week. Since I can't afford to post it to australia again, it will resume its travels here in manchester.