Cons: The inundities created by those numerous flying recounts can get to you.
The Bottom Line: If you can truly give this book a chance and delve deeper into its meaning, it can be the beacon to guide you through nights of loneliness.
galadari0110's Full Review: Richard Bach - The Bridge Across Forever
My only chance to really read a book and become engulfed in it is when I'm on a break from my everyday work. As a medical student, you spend so much time learning and and communicating with others you simply do not have the time to look back into yourself and think about those deepest intimate moments you might share with the one you love.
Finding the the time to read becomees a holy task that should not be wasted by frolicking into books that may not have meaning or will not become a part of you in the future. That's why I had mixed expectatations when I first started with Bach's The Bridge Across Forever. I have previously read Illusions and though it captured me in a sense, I did not feel the magic that a number of people who have read the book felt. I hoped against all odds that this book would be different. I was wrong...
This books reads the same as the former and though it's a bit less intimate and self-inspecting, it still deals with a numer of thoughts that people just don't know that they exist. You just never know that a person in this world would be so candid with his feelings that he would speak it out with such ease and let things flow into words. I started this book and felt it drag me down. I did not know where Bach was going, when he'll go there, how he'll get there and what is it that he will do when he finally does get there. I just wanted the book to finish. With ease, the book just flowed and I could feel the soft shift fromonme scene to another and knew that the book was just an easy read and that the end was nigh.
I kept on thinking about bach's failures and nonesense in this book. On how a person with such a heightened sense of sensitivity could be so blind to let go of something everyone wish they could have let alone fathom. His inundities made me quite angry at him and really wanted me to stop reading all these follies, but I persevered. I felt the book twist and the chapters move from one theme to another. New Age. Flying. Evangelism. Everything seemed to flow from one page to another until one paragraph near the end of the book summed up its meaning, its essence. It was that simple short sum of words that entrapped what the book was all about and it was only then that this book made me truly realize Bach's reason to distract us until we reach at that point. That paragraph captured my heart and made me truly think if a soulmate does truly exist and if the person I'm currently in love with and inspired by is truly mine.
For all my aspirations and expectations, I do hope so. And it was only at the end did I finally realize what the bridge across forever truly means.
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