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Summary: A heartfelt life guidance!
Review: I read this book in the subway on the way to office and back to home, which means I spent about 40 minutes a day. I realized that I was enjoying the extra time which I just wasted out normally. It took a week for the completion of reading. Actually this book came to me by change, and I was reluctant to read it. However, as the reading was going on, I love this book which gave me a chance to re-think about my life and what is important in my life. Some people, stuck in making money only, should read this book and have a great chance to meet a new life where is full of love and peace. The most impressive aphorism to me, "LOVE wins. LOVE always wins."
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Summary: A touching story
Review: I was so touched by this book. Many parts just brought me to tears. Even in his [last] days Morrie still continues to teach some very important lessons to Mitch, who is a bit lost and unsure of his decisions in life. I think that this book puts out such a powerful message. A message that you only have one chance in life so why not make it the best time you have ever had by doing the things that are important instead of putting things off and surrounding your life with the things that really don't matter in the long run.
All in all I thought this book was great for anyone who wants to read a book with some great meaning and messages. It's a great book for anyone who feels a little lost or overwhemled in this busy and complicated world we live in, to put life back in perspective and give you a new outlook on many things. It's also just a great story of two people who found eachother again after many years and who reconnected and spent some great Tuesdays together.
I really enjoyed reading "Tuesdays With Morrie".
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Summary: Morries' Morals
Review: For myself and many of my freinds, death is not something we face with cheer. It is usually something we try to avoid at all costs. Morrie is the exception to this rule. He takes death like a bull by the horns, dispelling the mystery of fear that usually lies in our hearts. He is a humanist with a heart of hearts. Most people would not admit to having many of the feelings that Morrie expresses in this book. Secretly they probably wish they could. He is a man of unbelievable courage that is only outshined by his selflessness and will to give one last lesson to whomever can prosper from it. The lucky sole who winds up needing Morries' help more than most is his former student Mitch. Mitch admired and listened to all the advice Morrie gave through the years. Unfortunately it took Morrie being on his deathbed for him to really take it seriously and apply the advice to his own life. They both appear to be each others salvation, but Mitchs' life would have never been complete were it not for Morrie.
This is an excellent book for anyone that thinks they know everything there is to know about themself and need to find the truth about who you they are. Most people have a Morrie somewhere in their life and just do not know it. Luckily I know who my Morrie is, and I am thankful for it.
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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: This book is very interesting. You are always wondering what is going to happen at their next meeting. The book also gets you thinking of your own life and if your living the way you want to be. This book is a really good story ,and I do recommend this book if you want to read about a real person in a realistic situation. Although this story is sad in many ways, it is also a very sweet and happy story in it's own ways too!
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Summary: Morrie puts it all in perspective
Review: I read this book on a long flight home from a week away. I missed my family. I was tired. It touched me deeply. Told in simple, powerful language, this is a book about what matters. It is a book about life, written from the perspective of a man coming to the end of his. It is about a man who advises us to "learn how to die in order to learn how to live." Morrie reaches out to his student (writer, Mitch) at a time when Mitch most needs it -- a time when he is questioning his lifestyle and the choices his generation is making. It is a great book for anyone who struggles with the desire for a simpler life in a complex world.
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Summary: We could all use a Morrie, but not necessarily this book
Review: Mitch Albom's deeply personal work is the story of a journalist who rediscovers an old college professor, Morrie, who is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). The book encompasses a series of successive Tuesday visits Mr. Albom made to Morrie in order to get to know him. Over the course of these visits, Mr. Albom learns a few things about Life (family, career, love, etc.) from the older, gentler and wiser Morrie. Mr. Albom appears to go through a life transformation as he starts to discover the truer meanings of life. More specifically he sees a kind man degenerate before his eyes to the point where Morrie can no longer perform basic bathroom duties without assistance. Through the observations and conversations, Mr. Albom starts to recognize that the pursuit of money, career, etc. is not as important as spending time with his loved ones. Such an axiom is nothing new. I would even argue that a lot of people already know this. But how does one adopt that philosophy and practice it? Clearly, Mr. Albom wants to share this life revelation with his readers but ultimately in the end, the book comes up short. While Albom means well, the chapters are trite and lacking depth. It is wonderful that Mr. Albom has benefited from his Tuesday's with Morrie but in order for people to realize what's important to them, they will need to find their own 'Morrie'.
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Summary: I hope I can be like Morrie with my students...
Review: "Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precision thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?" I can only hope that one day that one student of mine would feel about me and what I tried to do for them as Mitch Albom felt about Morrie Schwartz, his favourite professor in college. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is more than just a beautiful story about a student reunited with his professor 16 years later, it's more than just a story about a dying man and his last days, it's a story about how to live your life, to grasp life by it's hand and run as fast as you can with it, all the while cherishing every last minute. While it is extremely relevant for anyone that is in a mentoring type relationship or in a teaching position, it also holds true for anyone that wants to think more about their current habits and how they can change in their day to day habits to lead a more simple and fulfilling life. Reading this book was a revelation for me. How often do I work so hard that I put everything else off until I try to finish my never ending list of tasks to do? How often do I tell my family I am too busy, or tell myself I am too busy or I don't deserve to have special moments or to treat myself? How often do I tell friends that I can't come out to play because I have so much to do? If you get nothing else from this book, at least see the message of how a simple life, full of love, is the best thing in the world. How we should be happy and grateful for every minute we have here, with our loved ones, our friends, even with those that we don't know, and how what we do really affects those around us. I read this book in an afternoon, the whole time with tears pouring down my cheeks. I was amazed at the strength and courage of Morrie Schwartz, as he watched his once life filled body slowly turn into stone. I prayed for a different ending to the book, but on reflection, the reason his story has so much impact is because he did not run away from what was going to happen to him, instead he embraced death and through dying, found a way to tell the world how to live. I felt a fondness for a man I had never met, I felt grief for his family for their loss, I empathized with Mitch because he was about to lose what he had just found and yet I laughed with joy at Morrie's stories and I thought deeply about how I would feel if that was my life. This book did an excellent job of making me realize how grateful I should be to be alive, with my life, my health, my family and my friends and also how I need not take these things for granted. I enjoyed the flashbacks to the days of Mitch as a student and the relationship that developed with Morrie. I loved that they met on Tuesdays and were "Tuesday people". I thought the emotions that Mitch poured out on paper were so real and touching, he did an excellent job of capturing Morrie's last days, and their friendship. As a teacher, I can only dream that I could ever affect my students in the way that Morrie affected his. Here is a man that stopped chanting at a Basketball game just by simply stating a question, had his students come in touch with their feelings, have people from all over the country visit him in his last days, and he did this with a grace and dignity that only so few of us possess. I want to be just like Morrie Schwartz, a teacher, a friend, a confidant, a supporter, and even if I manage to be only minutely like this, my life will be all the better for it. I encourage you to read this book because of its simple and heartfelt message about the beauty inside of each of us and the potential for all us to become great people.
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Summary: Mitch left something out
Review: Mitch Albom has put together a tender and moving account of the last years of a brave man fighting against Lou Gehrig's disease. Morrie Schwartz, a teacher most of his life, contracted ALS when he was in his late seventies. The prognosis was a few short years before he succumbed to the disease. Shocked at first, Morrie decided to live life as best he could, while he had time. He soon realized that one cannot really live until one has learned to die. The author, Mitch Albom, eighteen years earlier had been a student of Morrie at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Mitch had been very close to Professor Schwartz while in college, but drifted away after graduation. One day he saw Morrie Schwartz being interviewed by Ted Koppel on Television. Concerned, Mitch visited Morrie. What ensued was a masterfully crafted mixture of weekly meetings with Morrie (on Tuesdays) and reminiscences of earlier meetings when Morrie was healthy and Mitch was in college. Mitch, a professional sports writer, displays deep talent in getting to the point using few words and using those words skillfully and with compassion. Many sections will bring tears to your eyes. Mitch is wrapped up in achieving success and working hard to gain it. Morrie, in his late seventies, has already gained a deeper, more philosophic view of life. The biography starts out as a surprisingly intuitive insight of what is really important for all of us if we want to live fulfilling lives. Disappointment, for me, came when Mitch introduced the idea of reincarnation (Morrie would like to come back as a gazelle) and when Mitch was critical of the Book of Job (Morrie thought God overdid it). I then noticed that the man who was trying to learn how live by learning how to die never mentioned his coming encounter with the God who created him. Mitch Albom presents a well written book with valuable insights, but he misses the real point of human life: Why are we here? What happens when we die? Surely, an awareness of God has to be an important part of learning how to die.
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Summary: The Meaning of Morrie
Review: Old or young, male or female, bookworm or moviegoer, anyone can appreciate reading Tuesday's with Morrie. Mitch Albom tells the story about his time spent with a former college professor. Years after Mitch graduates from college, he catches an interview on television between Ted Kopel and his old professor, Morrie Schwartz, who taught a class called "The Meaning of Life."
After hearing that Morrie is sick and dying, Mitch attempts to reunite with him and finally runs into Morrie on the street. The two continue a class that ended years ago when Mitch and Morrie meet every Tuesday to have the last few lessons of "The Meaning of Life" class by discussing all aspects of life. Morrie allows Mitch to understand what really matters in the world and, more importantly, becomes a friend. Personally, I am not someone who can get into a book very easily; however, I found that after reading Tuesday's with Morrie, I was able to relate to what Morrie was speaking of. Rather than keeping the discussions to himself, Mitch allows Morrie to speak his wisdom to the entire world. Anyone who reads this book has the opportunity to take a look at life from a new perspective. I had the pleasure of hearing some of Morrie's wisdom when I read this book last year. Morrie is a magical human being who helps Mitch and every reader of this book to look at the world with brand new eyes. He turns everything that was blurry into something crystal-clear, something understandable. Whether one reads mystery, action, fantasy or non-fiction, Tuesday's with Morrie is a must-read book for everyone.
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Summary: Need more books like this!
Review: This is such a simple yet beautiful portrayal of what life is all about, and such a resource for wisdom and peace at a time when we all need it. Reading it has made me want to check out more books like that, about what we can learn about life from the dying. I discovered a brand new gem that works along a similar theme, and I think those who enjoyed Tuesdays will also enjoy it. It is called It's All Good: Emails from a Dying Best Friend by Jonathan Widran (Xlibris). Its a beautiful story about friendship between two guys in their mid-30s, rather than an old man and a young man, but also very wise. Humorous in spots too. Morrie is an obvious influence on it.
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