The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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Summary: Loved this book!
Review: I am so thankful that a librarian friend put this book on hold for me! It is such a worth-while read. I only wish this book would have been out last year when I lost a very dear friend in a tragic accident- I know I would have found comfort in it. This is a MUST HAVE book. I will definatly be giving this book as a gift to many of myt dear friends this year!

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Summary: What is heaven like ?
Review: The 5 People is a wonderful book, but so many people just focus on their own lessons they learned, which makes for an interesting story, but I am always looking for more - how does this apply to me? Do I have to have an NDE and come back, so I can tell others what heaven is about? I liked Tiffany Snow's book better, she had an NDE, and goes on to tell about the ripple effect of our actions. I'm not saying The 5 People is a bad book, really, but I guess I was just expecting more than a fairy tale.

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Summary: A GREAT BOOK!
Review: The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a wonderfully colorful tale. The story of Eddie was emotional, and well written. The author kept you going throughout, always wondering what would happen to sorrowful character next. What little clue about himself would he learn, and he would teach it? Albom did a really great job with this book! READ IT!

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Summary: Heaven ok. Enjoyed the recommended title
Review: I bought this book with the recommended Emotional Intelligence Quickbook. I wasn't that impressed with "heaven" though maybe I was looking for something different. The Emotional Intelligence Quickbook fit the bill and can see why it was recommended. It was interesting to read and test my emotional intelligence online--there's a free test with the book ;)

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Summary: Insightful
Review: Thought provoking and insightful, as well as witty and creative. I also suggest the book, The Little Guide To Happiness.

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Summary: Wonderful Read
Review: This book is one of the best books I have read in a long time. It keeps your attention and makes you want to turn the page to find out what is next. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Albom's Five
Review: Mitch Albom presents a second novel to "Tuesday's With Morrie." Yet, while his first novel focuses on the END of one's life, the second novel, "The Five People You Meet In Heaven," he suggests a new outlook on the afterlife. While Morrie's story is more about proving his life was valuable - to others, Eddie's story is about what the meaning of life is intrinsically and learning the mistakes, the causes, and the consequences of the decisions made in his life. For, the book begins with Eddie - a war veteran at 83 years old, head of maintenance at Ruby Point Amusement Park, and his attempt to save a girl from a falling cart. And how it took Eddie's life. Eddie wonders about the girl, and when he goes to heaven he is thinking that finding out whether or not he saved her is his answer to his meaning of life on earth. Was his "ending" successful, he wonders?
Yet Eddie's supposed "ending," he learns, is also a beginning. It is a beginning for him to explore with five people who have impacted his life or been impacted by it, directly or indirectly. While it the beginning for Eddie, through meeting each of the five people, he is also able to bring his heavenly visitors closure on their own lives' on earth.
There is no hero in the story, but yet a regular man, living in the regular world...and yet Albom himself is a hero for providing such an interesting outlook on this possibility of the afterlife.
I ask myself after reading this, "When I go to heaven, who are the five people who will explain my life to me?" -- and this is certainly thought provoking in that it can make one think about, knowing that there are going to be five people that in all of life's decisions, there will be several that can change one's own life - and those of others' - forever. People have called this earth shattering, yet I would say it shows how tightly knit the people on this earth are and how things can never truly be shattered.

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Summary: Not "Tuesdays", but meaningful nonetheless
Review: Had the star scale been given in 1/2 increments, I perhaps would have put 3 1/2, but I thought it over and left it at 4 as opposed to 3. If you pick up this book expecting the same wealth of simple yet poetic wisdom from "Tuesdays with Morrie," you might be dissapointed, as the fruits of this book are more focused on the life of one person, rather than being relative to the any or all readers. However, ignoring the judgements based on comparisons, this was certainly delightful to read, and still leaves a lesson or two for us to come back to. Heaven has been a subject that human beings have explored over and over, and through the general media's perception, perhaps has been done to death with "clouds up in the sky" mindset. Every once a while though, films, books, and other tangible facets of the human imagination give us a new perspective of paradise, or reinvented a traditional view. Albom accomplishes both. The people that have passed on before us are there to meet us in heaven, but here's the catch: they're not who you expected. Giving anything more would spoil it, so I'll leave it at that, plotwise. An easy, smooth read, this book will take little time to finish, perhaps as little as an hour or more, but will still leave you thinking about Heaven, as well as your life on earth, in a different way.

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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful
Review: Inspiring, comforting, a joy to read.

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Summary: Oh Heaven is a Place on Earth
Review: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom is a refreshing novel about life. Albom does an excellent job of making the reader question his or her views on the afterlife as well as the meaning of life itself Also, Albom discusses how the afterlife explains one's life and his or her purpose in it. In addition, the five people Albom chooses for Eddie to meet in heaven provide further insight as to why relationships are important, regardless of whether or not you know that person directly. Overall, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a quick read, yet its unique message is different and thought-provoking and Albom has the reader hanging onto every last word, holding back the persistent tears of joy and triumph.