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  4 0 The titles that came to my mind were William Wharton's wonderful Birdy, about a deeply traumatized veteran who has convinced himself he is a bird and can fly, or desires to anyway - "I know I want to fly as much as any canary. I don't have to fly anything as well as a canary;gliding down from high places with arm control might be enough." And Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, which also involves human flight in many senses: to be more specific would spoil things a bit, I think, but I think it fits your criteria. There is a character who tries to fly in Ursula Hegi's Sacred Time, with tragic results. And I guess I always think of Walt Whitman, who often wrote of flying, or as though he were flying: "O to speed where there is space enough and air enough to last!" I don't suppose Jonathan Livingston Seagull counts, since he's a bird, but there's a lot of stuff about flying in there. Oh, and gosh, how could I forget: Peter Pan!  And come to think of it, many of the characters in this list of Realistic Superhero Novels can also fly. David Wright answered in Book Recommendations 7 months ago | Report 1 comment by jack… 0 0 thanks david for the suggestions... actually i thought of writing a story where the main character believed that man can fly, so he spends rest of his life tying to fly. i just want to check if there was a story on it.. jack commented 7 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 Oh god, read The Fledgling by Jane Langton. One of my favorites, and it won a Newberry to boot. It's about a painfully shy little girl from an outgoing family in Concord, MA, who loves nature. She's so light and tiny that one of the Canada geese on Walden pond meets her at night and teaches her how to fly, So. Good. Sacrelicious answered in Book Recommendations 7 months ago | Report 1 comment by Russ Campbell, NWEBS… 0 0 I collect children's books that have a parrot as a major character or focus. With the mention of this book I see an area where I may want to branch out to stories with other bird species characters. Russ Campbell, NWEBS commented 7 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Somewhere along the way in the "Don Juan" series by Carlos Castaneda, Carlos attempts to fly. I think it's in "Tales of Power". jwhazzup answered in Book Recommendations 7 months ago | Report 2 comments by Marty Unger and jack… 1 0 Yes. I read these as a teenager and have been able to fly in my dreams ever since. Marty Unger commented 7 months ago | Report 0 0 ha ha, you must be having great fun since then.. jack commented 7 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 I know you're probably talking about grown-up books, but your question made me reminisce about this book, which was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. Basically, a girl gets mail-order wings, and it turns out the wings really work, but there's a price to pay - the wings make her turn into a bird. It's poignant, surreal and sad. Nim Chimpsky answered in Book Recommendations 7 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 If you want actual flying in a realistic way, read Robert Heinlein's short story "The Menace from Earth", in which the low gravity of the moon allows tourists to fly in underground caverns, using wings rented the way one rents skis at a mountain resort. A key scene takes place in one of the caverns, so there is a lot of well-described flying action. Because it's one of his early works, it's not marred by the crazy fascism of his later stuff. For the opposite of the realistic approach, try Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide series, which portray flying as a something everyone can do, but only if they are distracted enough to forget that it's completely impossible. The idea is developed in the third book "Life, the Universe, and Everything" and continued in the fourth "So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish", which includes a flying sex scene. Tom Sackett answered in Book Recommendations 7 months ago | Report 1 comment by O my captain… 1 0 Oh yes, I've read "Menace from Earth" to my two kids as a bedtime story. My son fell in love with it and requested it often. Now, it has kindled his love of science fiction, and he's become an avid reader. I found that story is the beloved collection "Tomorrow's Children" Edited by Isaac Asimov! I was going to suggest the (Fourth?) book in the Hitchikers Guide series "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" in which Arthur Dent finds true love and learns to fly, exactly in that way that bricks thrown into the air don't. A very nice, untypical romantic fantasy for them all. Enjoy! O my captain commented 7 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 You could go old school with the tale of Icarus and datelus. And if being able to meld your mind with birds counts George rr martins song of fire and ice has several characters that can do it bit most of the first person stuff happens in dreams for the first few books other than that it's just mentioned that they have that power or specific people are piloting the birds sublevelthree answered in Book Recommendations 7 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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