I Recommend: Smriti Z Iraani

I would definitely recommend Richard Bach's Illusions — The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah. He's the same author who wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull. It's a very simple yet powerful book. I think everyone must get a copy of this book and read it.

The book begins as a search for someone, and something but as you go through the chapters and story progresses you realise that you have found yourself. I think that the book will appeal over all ages and has something to offer for each of its readers.

It's more than just a book, I would call it an experience of sorts.

Richard Bach is a legendary author. Each work is a piece of art. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is about living up one's dreams against all odds. It's a celebration of will. It is an odyssey of spirit and dedication. No wonder the book was a best seller and is today considered as a milestone.

Most of Bach's work were related to flying and this could be beacuse the author had pursued flying as a hobby.

His other novel, One though isn't considered in the same league as Jonathan and Illusion, but I guess it was appealing and special in its own way. The novel's theme was the quest for a soulmate.

This was an autobiogaraphical note where Bach has talked about discovering his soulmate in his friend Leslie who later went on to become his wife. Bach's idea of soulmates is quixotic and that's why he had famously said, 'Leslie and I are no longer married. Soul mates, to me, don't define themselves by legal marriage,' after his marriage with her was over.

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