“The Kahlil Gibran of the Me! generation called his last hero Jonathan, but now he’s in full, self-y swing with a narrator named Richard who sells $3 rides on his biplane and learns to become ‘one messiah in a world of others. The first Illusions book was published in 1977 and was an international best-seller, telling the story of a pilot who encounters a messiah who has absconded from the 'job' of being a messiah. In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don’t need airplanes to soar, that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them, and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places-like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and, most of all, deep within ourselves. Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student is the 2014 novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. The river delights to lift us free, if only. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders-until he meets Donald Shimoda, former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard’s imagination soar. See the Messiah, come to save us all And the one carried in the current said, I am no more Messiah than you. In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane.
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