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Hypnotizing Maria
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Hypnotizing Maria
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Hypnotizing Maria

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Flight instructor Jamie Forbes guides a woman to landing her plane safely after her husband loses consciousness, then flies on to his own destination unimpressed by his act...flight instructors guide students every day. Only after she tells reporters that a stranger appeared in an airplane alongside hers and hypnotized her into landing, and after he meets his own guiding stranger does he solve the bigger mystery: how each of us creates, step by step, what seems to be the solid world around us. The best mysteries are the ones whose answers lie in front of us, in plain sight. The best solutions are those moments when all of a sudden we realize what we've known all along.
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Release dateSep 18, 2009
ISBN9781612830872
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Hypnotizing Maria
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Richard Bach

Richard Bach, a former USAF pilot, gypsy barnstormer, and airplane mechanic, is the author of fifteen books. This, his fourth book, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and has continued to inspire millions for decades. His website is RichardBach.com.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I'm not sure I can effectively review this book. On one level, the plot is very simple. On a deeper/different level, it's exactly as complex as it needs to be.

    If other works by Richard Bach have appealed to you, you'll love this book. I love it. It fell into my hands (via my local library) at exactly the right time; I read it exactly when I needed to read it.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The premise of this book is thought provoking, but what has the potential to be an exciting journey of discovery simply disappoints. The books begins with an exciting rescue by a competent hero. The chapters that follow are more like journal entries examining how individuals construct reality. The stream of consciousness approach had me skipping complete paragraphs hoping to get to the good part.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Richard Bach never fails to inspire and this book is another fine specimen that I read and will probably go back and read again. There's a lot here, a lot to ponder...which is his way.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Well written and thought provoking...reminds me of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, except the grounding subject is small airplane short hop travel, and the mind blowing stuff is hypnosis and how EVERYTHING in our reality may be just an ever-changing series of suggestions we've chosen to accept. The "coincidental" meetings with the strange co-traveling mystical philosopher is the icing on the cake. Must read for curious thinkers and lovers of good writing.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not Bach's best, but still a nice story. Idea of self-suggestion, law of attraction is typical Bach stuff but didn't fall in love with characters like JLS or Illusions. He'll always be one of my faves though. Would only recommend to Bach fans - otherwise too undeveloped, not enough impact on new reader.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    this was my third Richard Bach book and i’ve always enjoyed reading his work, but this one fell completely flat for me. it started out with promise and just got progressively worse. in the end, i had a difficult time just getting through the short 160 pages.the first few pages of the book were extremely intense. Jamie Forbes is out on an uneventful solo flight when he finds a woman panicking because her husband has lost consciousness mid-flight. Jamie, an experienced flight instructor, calmly walks her through the procedures to make a safe and graceful landing at a nearby airstrip. having completed his good samaritan-like duties, he goes on to complete his flight and mostly forgets about the encounter. like i said, intense.Jamie learns later that the woman, named Maria, is claiming that a man hypnotized her and led her to safety. this leads Jamie on a personal introspective journey of recollection and soul searching, in which he is trying to understand and bring to life the concept of manifesting your own destiny. and this is where the book flopped. hard.what started off as a book with amazing potential turned into a book you might find in the self-help section that was preaching the ways of self realization. and on top of that, the editing left the book feeling like a rough draft, with some heavy stream of consciousness type stuff. the book would gain some steam and then lose it altogether before plowing back into the story. it felt like a bunch of really great ideas that never tied together and it left me pretty disappointed.on the positive side, the book, much like Bach’s other books, raises a lot of good questions and provokes some really great questions. as for his other books, i still love Jonathan Livingston Seagull and would steer people toward that title instead of Hypnotizing Maria. good potential, but a dud this round for me.