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    <body><![CDATA[I <strong>LOVED</strong> this book!! I read it over and over and have given copies to several people.<br/><br/>The book starts off with a &quot;handwritten&quot; and smudged story, written like books in the Bible, by a auto mechanic who discovered the Divine in himself and was followed by throngs of people,who cal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2750237">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[um... probably the nicest thing to say about this book would be...  a dumb mans &quot;Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance&quot;<br/><br/>anyway, i saw this book at a garage sale for 25cents... that made me pick it up. what made me *buy* it was this introduction<br/><br/>&quot;I do not enjo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20710945">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard about the book on Esther &amp; Jerry Hicks Video. After reading the reviews here on Goodreads I decided to make the 10 odd minute trip to Kinokuniya to grab a copy. I never regretted it. A book which carries the message of how we mould our own future, our own life, our own outcomes in a very eng...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17587262">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this book moved me more than any other before or since. Not because the writing was so great but the thoughts  contained in it were so close to what I was feeling as a 19 year old away from home and on my own for the first time. I still believe the ideas contained here are timeless and pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48156967">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall: Boring…  <br/><br/><br/>Directly from the book (my comments in brackets): <br/><br/>Pg.	Quoted<br/>49	The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, “I’ve got responsibilities.”<br/>75	Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.  <br/>90	Negative attachmen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73802496">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Please note the shelves this book is on: It's much more &quot;junk&quot; than &quot;fun.&quot;  I received this as a gift, and it says on the cover, &quot;The glorious best seller by <strong>Richard Bach</strong> author of <u>Jonathan Livingston Seagull</u> and <u>One</u>&quot;, which I think pretty much sums it up.  The author's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54014315">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While I enjoyed Richard Bach's <em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull</em> when I first read it as a teenager, it was both for its philosophy as well as for its gentle humor and simple (though not simplistic) view of the important things in life. I did not have as positive a reaction to <em>Illusions</em>. While it was mild...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63494901">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rather amazed by the high (over a 4 star) rating AND at the number people who have read this book.  It was recommended by a fellow teacher who said it would be good for a classroom library, but I cannot imagine a student fighting his or her way through this claptrap.  It's pop religion, 1970s-style ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66348638">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this book now I can understand what`s going on around me better than before.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't remember how many times I've read this book and then it goes back on the shelf only to be retrieved when I need to read something that will bring a smile to my face. The subtitle to the book &quot;Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah&quot; has always intrigued me. Told in parable form the gems ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78460016">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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