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Summary: Living according to Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie was a poorly written book that restates the same ideas over and over. Morrie is a professor that is dying of ALS and shares one last "class" with one of his former students. He has an exceptional attitude about his approaching death and tries to share his messages about life and living with Mitch. Mitch seems to be focused on what society sees as success; power and wealth. With this as his focus, Mitch is deeply touched by Morrie's views of life and happiness. Morrie repeatedly tells Mitch not to focus on wealth and power, that true happiness lies in the simple things. Morrie says to focus on family and nature, spirituality and not "selling out". Many people have shared these ideas for hundreds of years, but perhaps Morrie's situation is what makes his advice seem more life altering.
The book overall was okay, the message was the same as several others I have read. Perhaps my expectations were too high, therefore leaving me disappointed. The book had great potential, but was not written as well as it could have been.
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Summary: The Living Take It To Heart
Review: Watching death is not easy, but especially those involving such as ALS.It is better to go to a house of mourning, than to go to a house of feasting, because that is the end of every man, and the living take it to heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 See also the fascinating work by Jerome Groopman: "The Measure of Our Days."
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Summary: We should all read this by requirement
Review: Seriously! We all have to die someday and can learn something from this book Tuesdays with Morrie. OMG I had so many emotions in this book. It is a true story and a good one. It teaches and teaches and teaches some more. We all need a lesson where we are not biased and are not head strong like when we are argumentative or shallow and this book makes us all sit down and think about our lives and how we should do the best to enjoy it and laugh and be funny while being real to our core. A book for all of the human race.
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Summary: An epic tale about life and death.
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is a wonderful story about life and living life to make you happy. Morrie is a retired sociology professor that has been diagnosed with ALS which is a terminal illness. Mitch, one of Morrie's favorite students hears of this news a starts to visit Morrie on tuesdays. In the book we learn how important it is to be happy with our career, family, basically in all aspects of life. One of the major themes is to be loving. We will die with out love, not a physical death like Morrie's but a death of the soul. This story is a tear jerker that examines life through the eyes of a dying man and shows how short life really is. We don't all get a chance to mend relationships before we die, so when we have the chance to while we are living we should do so.
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Summary: An epic story about life and death...
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is a wonderful tale about a retired sociology teacher that has just been diagnosed with ALS. One of his favorite students, Mitch hears of this news and begins to visit morrie on tuesdays, and Morrie teaches Mitch a final course,life. This is a wonderful tale about life through the eyes of a dying man. Morrie see's life as something that we should not take for granted and in order to live happily we must be forgiving, and most importantly loving. This wonderful story is a tear jerker and brings up a lot of angst that we all have about death. Death is a reality and pretending that it will go away is not the answer in coping with it. Morrie touched my heart in that he made me realize that life is to short to waste it away holding grudges and not doing what makes you happy. We all do not get the chance to repair and mend relationships before we die. This book also tought me that coping with the tribulations of life is not all that bad. If someone looking at death head on can cope with life, and still smile and give so much love to those around him so can I.
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Summary: Hope in the face of death? Maybe not.
Review: The obvious theme is to find what's beautiful in life and to think that was all that Morrie had going on. Ironically, I found him commenting on how he was going to die just as often as he did about how he was enjoying his last months. Yes, he did say it wouldn't bother him like it would most individuals. But really, I found his review of the situation to be as much as anybody else.
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Summary: A incredible book based on life lessons
Review: Tuesdays With Morrie is about a man, Mitch Albom, the author, and an old man, Morrie Schwartz. Morrie was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal illness. Morrie was a great professor of Mitch's when he was in college. The novel then picks up sixteen years later, depicting Mitch on a "fast track" as a husband and very successful sports writer who happens to renew his relationship with his beloved and brilliant professor.
This book has an enormous amount of compassion and demonstrates intimate relations shared between a young man and an older man who reveals some of life's greatest lessons. This novel can affect anyone's outlook on life, whether they are successful adults needing reminding of the things they take for granted, or unhealthy and longing for understanding, support, and most of all a different perspective of viewing death, a most haunted and feared finality. Eveyone can learn from this old intelligent professor because what he has to share compares to words of the wisest men in history.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie: Overrated
Review: I chose to read this book for a book report because I had heard such wonderful things about it.
Tuesdays With Morrie is an insightful true story about the friendship of a man and his old college professor, Morrie, who is slowly dying of ALS (Lou Gherig's disease).
I would recommend this book for certain people only. While Morrie's views may be helpful to some, I truly believe that this book is overrated. I had heard that this book was life changing, and for me this was certainly not the case. For extremely materialistic people, this book may change some values, but for an average person, the book won't tell anything they don't already know. I was disappointed that it did not live up to the expectations I had in my mind. In my opinion, Tuesdays With Morrie was a good story that was not as well written as it should have been. While Morrie does have good messages to share with readers, these are things that most people are usually conscious of. The writing itself did not do justice to the meaningful story that could have been portrayed. However, I did enjoy the story to some extent, and because it is a short book, it is worth reading. I think that some people may need this book as a small reminder of what is really important in life. I also appreciate the fact that Mitch Albom shared Morrie's inspirational views with the world, and I do agree that the idea behind this book is important and meaningful. Just the same, I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it. Overall, Tuesdays With Morrie was a hardly above average book that I, unfortunately, found very hard to enjoy thoroughly.
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Summary: Motivational!
Review: "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, deals with his weekly visits to his old college professor, Morrie, who was dying of the Lou Gehrig's disease. After graduation, Mitch was too busy pursuing his goals to remember about his promise to keep in touch but sixteen years later, after watching an episode of "Nightline," which did a piece on Morrie, he made a trip to see Morrie one last time before he dies. It was a Tuesday and for the next thirteen Tuesdays, Mitch would be making weekly visits to see his professor. This was going to be Morrie's last class and Mitch is going to be his last and only student and the coursework would be a final thesis (the book). Each time Mitch visited Morrie, his old professor would be teaching him lessons on life - how to love, how to forgive, how to appreciate your loved ones and also his perspective on death. Morrie unlike majority of the people, was not afraid of dying and his mantra was "when you learn how to die, you learn how to live." His outlook on death was so unusual that Ted Koppel did three shows on Morrie for "Nightline." Each time Mitch visited Morrie, his condition deteriorated to the point that he could barely moved his toe. And yet, Morrie was not one to wallow in self-pity and was in fact thankful, that he knew of so much of love. One of the most unforgettable moment for me was when Morrie held a memorial service for himself - before he died so that he could appreciate all the good things that people had planned to say of him. I really enjoy and appreciate this book for all its lessons. Mitch writes in a simple way, to deliver a most unusual message. Contrary to some reviewers who believed that Morrie's message was for the rich, the extremes, I feel that his message was for everyone. That love is the most important thing and make sure that you appreciate those around you before it is too late. One of Morrie's most memorable message for me was that even when a person dies, the relationship between you and him/her doesn't have to. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie: Overrated
Review: I am an 8th grader, and I chose to read this book for a book report because I had heard such wonderful things about it. I would recommend this book for certain people only. While Morrie's views may be helpful to some, I truly believe that this book is overrated. I had heard that this book was life changing, and for me this was certainly not the case. For extremely materialistic people, this book may change some values, but for an average person, the book won't tell anything they don't already know. I was disappointed when it most certainly did not live up to the expectations I had in my mind.
In my opinion, Tuesdays With Morrie was a good story that was not as well written as it should have been. While Morrie does have good messages to share with readers, these are things that most people are usually conscious of, and only extremely materialistic people may need such reminders. The writing itself did not do justice to the meaningful story that could have been portrayed. However, I did enjoy the story to some extent, and because it is a short book, it is worth reading. I think that some people may need this book as a small reminder of what is really important in life. I also appreciate the fact that Mitch Albom shared Morrie's inspirational views with the world, and the idea behind this book is important and meaningful.
Just the same, I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it. Overall, Tuesdays With Morrie was a hardly above average book that I, unfortunately,found very hard to enjoy thoroughly.
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