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Summary: Mitch Albom is a hypocrite
Review: Mitch Albom has pulled the wool over the eyes of a good portion of the American public. He learned nothing from Morrie Schwartz. This facile sportswriter is a fraud, able to write convincing baloney that, as many astute readers here have noted, is on the level of a junior high school English student pondering the meaning of life in 1,000 or so words.Albom writes about discovering the true meaning of life and forsaking his shallow pursuit of money -- but what he doesn't tell you is that after going out on strike with his fellow Detroit Free Press and Detroit News employees, he stabbed 2500 of them in the back by crossing his own picket line and going back to work alongside replacement workers. What did Morrie Schwartz think about the sort of people who come into a strike situation and take other people's jobs? Do you find "the true meaning of life" and make untold millions off a dying professor, and then become a scab? Is that right? Mitch Albom is picketed wherever he goes. His betrayal will never be forgotten.
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Summary: If you only read one book a year, read this one!!
Review: When I first read this book in September 1997, it touched me beyond words. Mitch and Morrie opened my heart to 'get the message' where no other book had ever reached. I gave a copy of this book, and Morrie's book "Letting Go," to my best friend. She had recently lost her husband and it was so painful to watch her suffer and be unable to 'fix' it and take her pain away. She read the two books and there was a wonderful change in how she felt. Somehow I think the two books made a difference. Thank you Mitch and Morrie for sharing this story.
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Summary: A fine story
Review: Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson is nothing less than an instruction manual on the meanings of life, taught by a truly great instructor. Morrie Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis, and the favorite instructor/mentor of Albom when he was an undergraduate. Despite promises to "keep in touch," Morrie loses track of his mentor until he happens on a Ted Koppel Nightline episode featuring Morrie, then dying of ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. Over the course of fourteen weeks, the last of Morrie's life, Album spends a series of Tuesdays with his old friend, learning the lessons of love, companionship, generosity, and family. Although set in the midst of dying, this short and graceful essay is about life. Morrie celebrates -- and Albom comes to learn -- what is truly precious about his life; not surprisingly, it has everything to do with relationships, and nothing to do with material gain. This is a fine book.
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Summary: honest and touching
Review: I started reading thisbook, knowing nothing about it, and got totally absorbed in it. It ran the gamut of all my emotions, laughter, thought provoking, sadness and grief...probably the first time I read a book and actually cried. Felt like I had lost a friend in the end. There were a few topics I would like to have seen discussed with Morrie, but overall, it was excellent. Kudos to the author
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Summary: Five Stars!!
Review: Tuesdays With Morrie is a book which makes the reader rethink his or her relationships. The author himself refocused his own connection with his estranged brother during the process of interviewing Morrie. For those of us who chose the book because of its description of ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease, it is a difficult, but cleansing text. This reader lost her mother to the devasting illness, and found it extremely hard to "live" through the process with the author and his mentor, but once it was over, was glad for the opportunity to understand what her mother went though at a much-too-young age. This book can be the start of a healing process for estranged families and is especially relevant for the upcoming holiday season.
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Summary: This is now included on my list of lifetime favorites.
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is one of the best books I have ever read. It is well written and spellbinding (I read it in one sitting - could not put it down). It offers lessons on life that seem important enough to give a copy to each of my six children in hope that they realize some of these truths early. The book made me cry, but it was not sad.
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Summary: Some facts of live we always forget: not enough time!
Review: Of course, you've heard this before. But you never really think about all the things you can find in this book. You need to open your mind and be sincere with yourself. Are you really happy? That's the question, and this book gives you ideas to help you to achieve happiness, if you want. Of course I've heard this before: in my 21th birthday somebody I loved very much gave me the last poem of Borges: in twenty lines it say almost the same things than this book but then I didn't gave it a lot of importance. Maybe I was not prepared. Now I try to live a better life and this book helps a lot to do so. It made me remember that when you cry reading a book or watching a movie you don't cry because of the book or the movie, you cry because of yourself. If that has happened to you and you want to LEARN about things you have heard before, this book is for you.
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Summary: I hate to say this, but it wasn't that great
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie covers a very important and touching topic. However, the insights handed down from Morrie to Mitch simply aren't that original and failed to enlighten me in the least. It will serve as a REMINDER of what is important in life, but does not break new ground. Morrie was obviously a loving and special man to those around him, but that does not warrant a national craze about this book.
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Summary: Great Book - Remember the little things!
Review: I throughly enjoyed this book, very powerful. This book will make you look at you should view your valuable life. Morrie is so open with communication with his family, friends, and anyone who will listen. I wish I could have spent an hour with Morrie he seems like such an inspiration. READ THE BOOK AND PASS IT ON TO SOMEONE ELSE!
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Summary: Sentimental and touching
Review: A very touching and enjoyable read, I found this book to make up for the mentoring so many of us miss while we are all aging together. Morrie offered suscinct, practical, abeit simple, viewpoints on the issues that many of us wonder about (marriage, death, forgiveness). Sometimes the most touching accounts are the one's that inherently make sense, awakening something we already knew but somehow forgot.
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