Talk:Richard Bach

message: : I removed the bizarre "low importance" tag.  R. Bach is, what, one of the top 20 biggest-selling authors of all time. 81.149.36.207 (talk) 19:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  comments 

message: This was commented out from the main article. I checked, and as I also find no evidence of the Illusions movie, I deleted it from the article. VikÞor  |  Talk 05:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Illusions

message: Richard should be HondaJet's spokesman and celebrity pilot so he can gracefully live down that 'prediction' from "One:" "Honda does not even make jets, never have never will." Maybe that was what got them going!  MWS (talk) 22:27, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  HondaJet 

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message: The article states that Richard Bach claims he is a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach.  What is the source for that, please?  According to the book The Encyclopedia of Useless Information, by William Hartston, J. S. Bach’s last direct descendant was his grandson Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach who died December 25, 1845 at age 86.  Although I would hardly call this book a definitive source, it does make me wonder about this alleged claim by Richard Bach. 
If it can be documented that R. Bach ever made such a  claim, then it should be noted in the article that the claim is not true for factual reasons if that should be the case.  Does anyone have other sources showing this claim is false?  Does anyone have documentation that Richard Bach ever made such a claim?  On the latter point, if not then the claim should be removed from the article. On the former point, if so then it should be noted that the claim is incorrect and that Bach is not a direct descendant of J. S. Bach at all. HistoryBuff14 (talk) 16:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In The Bridge Across Forever, chapter 20, Leslie Parrish refers to J. S. Bach as "your great-granddaddy," and Richard -- in his narrator's voice, not directly to Leslie -- calls him Granddaddy. I took that as probably a play on the identical name and did not assume there was necessarily an actual relationship. I don't think the book claims to be pure autobiography, so I don't think that incident in the book is an appropriate source to say Bach ever made such a claim, much less that it's true (which is why I have not edited the article one way or the other). But I do wonder if that is what the editor who added this statement was thinking of. 68.102.48.153 (talk) 03:27, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  R. Bach a direct descendant of J. S. Bach? 

message: The article has but one picture, and in it Bach is seen from the back (I assume it is he) whereas two other persons are seen from the front and one of these two is the best lit of all. An unwary visitor to the page would naturally assume the well-lit, short gentleman on the right to be Bach, when in fact he is the leftmost in the group of three (or at least it sure looks a lot like him, and I know for a fact that the other two are not him). Can we have a picture where Bach is seen from the front? For example, this one (which is probably copyrighted) http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/01/richard-bach_vert-a1660e656dd99328a1cbe918f8e04c41a2e19a21-s51.jpg or this one, from circa 2012 http://kdfrases.com/imagens/richard-bach.jpg (which is certainly copyrighted as well), are both far better examples... Certainly we could find something in the public domain that represents him better? SrAtoz (talk) 00:50, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we find a picture that represents Bach from the front? 

message: The birth year of R. Bach is inconsistent with other wikipedia entries (generally 1936). 
Is the year 1937 really correct, as it says here?
/Amit  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.232.143.222 (talk) 15:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth year 

message: Pretty certain the publisher should be Macmillan Publishers (United States), not the British publisher Macmillan currently linked. My father was an executive at the latter at the times, so on the one hand I'm quite sure of this, but on the other I might be seen as having a conflict of interest in correcting the link myself, so I leave that to someone else. - Jmabel | Talk 04:17, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publisher 

message: It doesn't include his latest book, "Life With My Guardian Angel"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.197.100.56 (talk) 18:43, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography is not up to date 

message: Richard also has a grandson, Oliver Bach, who wrote a novel. 
Amazon "about" page
I guess considered not notable?  But since this article mentioned Bette Jeanne Franks book?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelhurwicz (talk • contribs) 21:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've looked and cannot find any independent reliable sources that mention Oliver or his book. (Also, new threads always go to the bottom of the page so I moved this one.) Schazjmd (talk) 21:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  grandson Oliver Bach