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Summary: Albom hits a grand slam
Review: A physically strong man who's morals, dreams, and aspirations are slowly decaying is reunited with his professor who is physically in decline. This is the true story of Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom. This novel becomes one of the few pieces of literature that is somewhat life changing for every reader. The novel forces the audience to reflect on daily life and the lessons are remarkable.
The novel begins with the reunion of a fast paced sports writer, Mitch Albom, and his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz. The two promised to keep in touch but hadn't seen each other for about sixteen years. When Mitch saw Morrie talking on a TV special about his disease, Mitch's intense guilt pulled him away from his life and back to his old friend. They decided to meet every Tuesday just as they had when Mitch was in college. Mitch began to fly down every Tuesday. He kept Morrie company and at the same time Morrie passed his wisdom on. Morrie was already incredibly wise and this was intensified by his change of viewpoint that came with being close to death. They talked about the world, regrets, family, emotions, aging, money, love, culture, marriage, forgiveness and death. As Morrie's health declined Mitch grew as a person.
This novel might be the most life changing ever written. Morrie's wisdom is beyond comprehension. He knows so much about the world. This novel reminds all readers the importance of living life to the fullest and not waiting until someone is sick to reunite with them. Tuesdays with Morrie leaves the reader a better person. The novel is one that I will read again just to be reminded of the life lessons it provides. It is a book that I will never forget.
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Summary: My review didn't go through.
Review: Well- I would just like to say that when you are reading this book you really fall in love with Morrie, and I fell in love with Mitch too and his honesty and how he changed in those short Tuesdays. A great book to read, not very long so it's very manageable to sneak a few pages here and there in..
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Summary: Great book
Review: You have to love Morrie and appreciate Mitch's honesty. A very good book, a very short book, very worth your time.
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Summary: Life Lessons
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is a great book about a loving friendship between two old friends named Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albom. Mitch made a promise to keep in touch with Morrie, his favorite professor, when he graduated from Brandeis University. Mitch failed to keep his promise to visit Morrie, so they both went their separate ways. One night while flipping through the TV channels, something caught Mitch's attention. On Nightline, Morrie was being interviewed about living with the disease ALS. Mitch and Morrie were reunited after sixteen years when Mitch went to visit Morrie after watching the show. They became close friends again, and Mitch decided that he was going to fly from Detroit to Boston every Tuesday to visit Morrie. They discussed various topics such as the world, regrets, family, emotions, aging, money, love, culture, marriage, forgiveness, and death. Tuesday after Tuesday, Mitch noticed a decline in Morrie's health. Sadly, on the fourteenth Tuesday, Mitch was forced to say goodbye to his dear friend, and Morrie passed away a few days later.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in getting a new perspective on life and learning a few life lessons. It was truly a great book, and if you choose to read it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Summary: The best book I ever read.....very inspiring
Review: I'm too lazy to write a full review but here's my favorite quote:The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air - until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible", the wave says. "Look what's going to happen to me!" Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and is says to him, "Why do you look so sad?" The first wave says, "You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?" The second wave says, "No, YOU don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the Ocean.
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Summary: Tuesday's With Morrie
Review: This is quite possibly one of the best books I have ever read. Mitch Albom was right on when he wrote this book. It will give people a guide to life for many years to come. It has given me lessons about life that I would otherwise have to learn by myself later in life. This book is everything it is made out to be and more. It is a must read for every person whether old or young. It is guaranteed to change your life. This book takes you through all the major points of life and allows you to understand them better. I wish that I could one day be as brave a person as Morrie Schwartz, the books main character. Even with a deadly illness he still found the time to teach those who were willing to learn around him. This book has helped me to find my way through some of the more difficult parts of life that I would have struggled with otherwise. This book goes through Morrie schwartz's remaining weeks on this earth on which every tuesday he spends with Mitch. We as readers get to experience Morrie vicariously through Mitch. If you have not read this book you must place it on the top of your must reads list, because you will never forget this book after you have read it.
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is an amazing, well written book by Mitch Albom. It's about a young man named Mitch and works as a sports reporter. After he sees his old professor on t.v, the next day he is at his house and from then on Morris and Mitch meet on Tuesdays. On there Tuesdays Morris talks about certain topics. Their topics where based on love, culture, marriage, and death. What Mitch finds out is that Morries time is funning out. This book was written very well. Mitch uses words that are so good that you can't even describe them. The reading is fast paced, and in no time you will have already read this wonderful book. The meanings and fazes Mitch uses will move you. I would recommend this book to anyone who has forgotten about a lost friend, and of course teachers and students. I'm a person who doesn't like thick, long books and this book is totally the opposite. What is great is that before every chapter Mitch and Morrie would go back into the past when they were in collage and it puts everything into its place at the end.
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Summary: Worth Each bit of Hype
Review: How do you add to 1300some reviews? Not easily. I resisted reading this book forever (5 years). Finally, I gave in. Wow. A rare book that is a good as all the hype/ Just read it. Let it change you. Don't waste another minute avoiding it. Go. Seriously, go now. Stop wasting time on the web. Read it. Now.
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Summary: Refocuses you on what is truly important in life
Review: In this busy busy world of money and status, Morrie refocuses us on what is important in life. It's our friends, our family, the people that surrounds us. It is living our life to the fullest - not by monetary or materialistic standards, but by how many people's life we touch and connect with. He turned his battle with terminal illness to a message and a story to tell the world. His spirit lives on forever, captured in the hearts of those who read Mictch Albom's book about his beloved professor. This is a story about a sociology professor's last project, last thesis about human kind -- the passing from the living to death. It is a must read for those who are in quarter life crisis, or those who feel that this you've been so caught up with this world that you feel something is missing. It takes you back to what is important. Dance on Morrie, dance on....
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: This was my book review for english that includes descriptions of the characters, summary of plot, and reccomendations. Mitch Albom's novel Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story about a dying man named Morrie Schwartz and a young man, Mitch Albom. Morrie was Mitch's professor in college and taught classes on the meaning of life. Morrie had always been Mitch's favorite teacher, and at graduation he promised Morrie that he would keep in touch with him. Sadly, over the years, the two fell out of touch as Mitch became a wealthy businessman who lost sight of the teachings of his college professor. One day, Mitch was flipping through the channels on television and saw an interview between Morrie Schwartz and Ted Koppel. Morrie was discussing his battle with the disease ALS. Mitch realized that he needed to visit Morrie and catch up before it was too late. The novel focuses on Morrie's fight with the disease as he tried to inspire in Mitch the lessons about life that he learned so many years ago, but seemed to have lost sight of.
Mitch is a man in his thirties and has a wife named Janine. He writes freelance as a sports columnist for the paper and his main focus on life is on material things before he reconnects with Morrie. Following the shock that his favorite teacher has a life-threatening disease, he decides to visit Morrie thousands of miles away. He makes a weekly routine of this and proceeds to visit him every Tuesday. Mitch tries to keep things as normal as possible with Morrie in spite of the fact that things are obviously changing. He records on videotape his many sessions with Morrie in hopes to help other people realize that life is not about material things.
Morrie is a man of 78 who has two grown sons and a wife, Charlotte. Mitch Albom describes Morrie as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and a Christmas elf. As his disease progresses, he feels the need to talk with Mitch more and more. Morrie tries to make Mitch realize that many people lead meaningless lives, rushing to meet deadlines and not making time for family. Every Tuesday, he and Mitch get together to talk about life's challenges, such as death, marriage, aging, regrets, and forgiveness. Even as he is dying, he manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
I liked that this book was a true story. It gives more meaning to the story, knowing that this actually happened. This book also has a theme that is needed in our world today, that is, to make the most of your time on Earth, to live life to the fullest, and to realize that the most important things in life are not those that money can buy. The novel starts with Morrie at the beginning of his battle with ALS and finishes with him dying from it. Mitch Albom wrote this novel in such a way that the reader feels that he is there with him through the struggle.
I did not like that Morrie died at the end. Morrie's death was imminent, but was nonetheless depressing. This is the only thing that I did not like about the novel. Everything else I enjoyed reading.
I would recommend this book to everyone because it deals with how to live life to the fullest and also discusses the need for humans to genuinely care for one another. Tuesdays With Morrie is a sad but true story of one man's journey through life and another's realization that life's most important moments cannot be bought.
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