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Summary: A lesson Learned
Review: I usually read books pretty fast when im interested in them, but with Tuesdays with Morrie, it took me a little bit longer. I did like the book overall because it gave me a different aspect on how i view life, death, my family, and people around me. Morrie is a great person to look up to, and was a great mentor to a lot of people. I try and take less things for granted, but I can't be like Morrie, and appreciate everything, I'm going to make some mistakes in my life. That's whats life is all about: trial and error. You have to make mistakes, then learn and grow from them. but from Morrie, I learned to make less of them. He was a good man, and Mitch potrayed him well in his book. I wouldnt read it again, just because it was a little boring after a few tuesdays, but its a great book for anyone to ready if they need a boost in their self esteem, or are going through a life crisis and are going down the wrong path in life. Being a teenager, I know alot of us live very dangerous and carefree lives, and im going to try and use what I learned from morrie about death, to try and slow it down and appreciate life more.
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Summary: This is an inspirational book
Review: This book has helped me see life differently. In the book morrie says Life is like a rubber band. Which is true I mean if you think about it, life really is like a rubberband it pulls you one way and then it pulls you the other way. Also it got me thinking if today is the day that I would die. I never really did think about it, but now I wonder if I did anything stupid to someone and did not appologize or if my family and friends know that I love them alot and did I do everything that I was supposed to do. This book taches you morals and principles on some of the important aspects that is important to him that would want us to know.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie really taught us about the most important aspects on life. It's a book of love and the sacrifice shown by people in order to show that love. This book teaches you the valuable lessons in life that are a necessity and not a luxury."Love one another or die"
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: The novel is a gateway to understanding for all those who have fear of death. It allows the reader to analyze their discomfort with death and realize the truth about their life. It is an inspirational book that touches on many common worries of our time from family to money to the inevitable passage of death. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is searching for lifes meaning, it offers no definitive answers but it may lead you to conclusions of your own.
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Summary: Grab the Kleenex
Review: Tuesday's with Morrie was a real tear jerker. It was a great book that is good for people of all ages. It's light reading, but very mentally stimulating. Mitch Albom, the author paints a wonderful picture of his professor and friend Morrie Schwartz. Albom's honesty and humor makes great reading. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with time to enjoy it, but especially to those dealing with terminal illnesses because of the refreshing insight and perspective this book has to offer.
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Summary: Living before life runs out
Review: This book is wonderful. I am very glad that I was able to read it. Morrie Schwartz was an exceptional man that even though I could not meet him, I feel very close to him thanks to the openness he shared with Albom. Morrie was dying, and was not afraid to admit it. He decided to help others, as he had done his whole life through teaching, one last time. This book teaches us about many life lessons that we all know that we should do, be kind to one another, always say I love you, and hugs are wonderful tools of communication. I would recommend this book for anyone who needs a new reason to live. That reason is purely for the joy of loving humanity and those around you.
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Summary: tuesdays with Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie has been one of the best books I've ever read. I love to read about life and how people sometimes do not
realize they are alive. This book will make you feel very fortunate that you have the opportunity to live life. A never ending cycle....
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: I read this book for my sociology class. Seemed a little sappy in premise, but it is a book with a 'big heart' and an important message for those who might question some of the central issues in life such as love, aging, materialism and death.The main character, Morrie Schwartz, is a well-loved professor of sociology at Bradeis University. He is renowned for his gentle and caring spirit, and he has touched many individual lives in a way most university professors don't. At the age of 75 he falls ill with ALS, an incurable disease which he knows will end his life slowly and painfully. Despite this condition, he maintains his positive attitude and busy schedule with classes and students and family and friends. As he starts to decline, a friend collects his aphorisms, little snippets of advice and wisdom, into a newspaper column. This column leads to an interview with Ted Koppel on NBC; this national exposure brings his former student, Mitch Albom to to his bedside. Mitch, a graduate of Brandeis and a student of Morrie's, has achieved great success at an early age. He writes a sports column in Detroit, and mingles with talented and wealthy athletes and team owners. He has an incredibly busy schedule flying to sporting events all over the country and he has acquired many of the vestiges of success. But when his unionized co-workers at the Detroit newspaper go on strike, he can't work and has the perfect opportunity to visit with Morrie and talk about life. He begins showing up every Tuesday at Morrie's home, to sit by his bedside and ask Morrie his opinion on topics such as love, marriage, forgiveness, and death. These conversations take place as Morrie declines week by week, his disease slowly creeping up his body. Morrie slowly surrenders to its grasp, becoming utterly dependent on his caregivers to feed, clothe, wash and thump him on the back so he can breathe. Mitch records this process of disintegration with pain and guilt, and is amazed that Morrie still maintains his appointments with friends and even strangers who were touched by his wisdom. Mitch carefully looks at his own life, and you can see him grow as they spend these last days together. At the end of Morrie's life Mitch is feeding him, holding his hand, and rubbing his feet, things which would have been unthinkable to him to do two months before. He is profoundly affected by this relationship. I took a lot away from this book about the mentor-mentee relationship. It started out in the formal educational system, in which Morrie was doing his job teaching Mitch in sociology classes. But it grew into a friendship both at Brandeis and after, as Morrie took the time to talk to Mitch, to have lunch, to give advice and to support. Their relationship grew as they embarked on this book, which Morrie called "their project," knowing it would find an audience and bring comfort to others. Mitch as the mentee actively sought out Morrie and steered the conversations to topics which troubled him or interested him. This contradicts what many people might think of these relationships - Morrie certainly had advice and enjoyed giving it, but he also asked questions and listened humbly throughout their many days together. Both gained, as Mitch absorbed Morries' wisdom and applied it to his own experience, and Morrie was loved and comforted in his final days. The truism I got out of this book was about the incredible importance of giving yourself to others. There are times when you would rather be alone, or you think that you don't have the energy to listen to others. But it is the kind of gift that is so easy to give and brings joy to yourself and others. Morrie gave generously of his time and elevated personal relationships to the highest level in his life. He danced every weekend, ate lunch with students and friends, took walks, always expressing his feelings freely to men, women, students and his children and wife. It was a lifetime of this giving that came back to him when he was dying. He even scheduled his own memorial service before he died, so that he could join in the remembrances. This was a wonderful book to read. At times the style is like a newspaper column, with short choppy sentences and paragraphs, but it is clear that this book has an incredible amount of heart. I of course want to know how Mitch lives his life differently because of those Tuesdays with Morrie, but I guess I won't really know without talking to him.
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Summary: A different look at death.
Review: I was required to read this book for a sociology class for school. No one wants to read an assigned book, students dread it, but after reading the first couple of pages, I had found myself engulfed in it. It was very interesting on how Morrie dealt with his inevitable death and how he looked back on how he lived. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of the book because its probably been done over and over again on this review list but would just highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn on how to deal with people who are about to pass. Morrie makes a good point on this, he says something of the sort that you shouldnt just send sympathy, you should call, visit and just spend as much time as you can with that person as his students, friends, and colleagues have done with him. His other thoughts on life are very interesting and promising on a guide to living a good life.
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Summary: A lesson taught
Review: I though this this book taught me a valuable lesson. To live life and have no regrets. It taught me to listen and to be there for others as I would want them to be there for me. It is a great book to read if you want to understand the meaning of life.
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