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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: I liked Tuesdays With Morrie a lot. I would reccommend it to anyone. It was a wonderful story about a student and his professor. Morrie's strength and wisdom not only touched his loved ones and those around him in his final days, but me as well. I was amazed at his optimism about his illness. Morrie is a true example to me that just when you think your life sucks, you could always be worse. Morrie had a great perspective on life and teaches us to enjoy life to the fullest and not to get caught up in all the worldly things. Morrie was an amazing teacher that we can all learn from!
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Summary: The Artery of Friendship
Review: Tuesday's with Morrie is a great book that encompasses many valuable lessons that most people don't have the opportunity to learn in a lifetime. One cannot finish this book without feeling some sense of pride in humanity and an urge to do more for others as well as make more of their own life. The story of a man in his last days that wishes to remain optimistic and create a journal of his life through another person is inspiring to us all. May the arteries of friendship forever endow us all and may we all learn from the lessons this wonderful book beholds.
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Summary: Why This Rocked My World
Review: This book is easy to read and avoids the usual preachiness that I find in "inspirational" type books. Those two reasons alone would have been enough for me to give this book a positive review. But beyond the general aesthetic reasons, this book crawled into every orifice of my consciousness. I found myself thinking about things during normal, every day chores. I would wake up the next morning, to remember that I had been dreaming about a particular thought that Morrie had discussed with Mitch. A book that can have this type of lasting effect on me is something special in my opinion. Morrie talked with Mitch about a lot of things that I know are troubling to me. Dying is something that I've always been afraid of. It's an unknown entity in which I am entirely powerless over. This combined, with my confusion of the entire God/Religion thing is enough to keep me in a tizzy. Mitch captured Morrie's thoughts perfectly and most importantly, succinctly. Everybody knows we're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. Although Morrie was born a Jew, seldom did religion or the God thing come into conversation. Instead, he said things that just seemed to ring true for me. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
This particular quote sounded good but it wasn't until I heard Morrie's logic that the little ding ding ding went off in my head. Accepting that today is my last day of life, might make me less ambitious, make me less caring about things that are pretty superficial like money, labels, and materialistic items. And before I went on to the next chapter, I closed my eyes and I thought about this stuff. I thought about all of the stuff I would cut out of my life if I only had that one precious day left. Each chapter (each visit) had a similar look and feel to them with Morrie spouting words of wisdom that seemed way too practical and common sense like. Both Mitch and I would take the time to reflect on his words, not because it was required but the thoughts invaded our consciousness, seeming to uncover many of those things that we wanted to bury for one purpose or another. If you know anything about ALS, then you know that it is terminal and that Morrie dies. I wasn't expecting to be so sucked in to Morrie. I wasn't expecting the bucket of tears that appeared during Mitch's last visit with Morrie. I tried to figure out what I was crying about and how I could shut off that spout before someone walked into the room. I think I was crying about how often, we don't understand things until it's too late and that if everyone had the same dose of wisdom that Morrie had, only way before they were knockin' at death's door, I wonder what the world would be like. Would we be waging war with Iraq? It just blows my mind to think of the possibilities that could occur if a dose of Morrie's wisdom was embraced by every one in the world. This book is highly recommended for those who are on a soul-searching journey about the meaning of life, as we all should be, never taking anything for granted. Another oddball Amazon quick-pick that I recommend, one that moved me, is --------------------------------------> The Losers Club by Richard Perez
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Summary: An Inspiration
Review: Annotation: An inspirational recount of a man's life by Mitch Albom as he rediscovers his old professor Morrie Schwartz. Morrie was dying from ALS, more commonly knows as Lou Gherig's disease. Mitch gets to spend the last sixteen Tuesday s of Morrie's life with him. What Mitch didn't realize at the time was that Morrie was teaching his final class. Author Bio: Mitch Albom is also the author of six books before Tuesdays With Morrie. Mitch was a well known columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Albom has been named top sports columnist in the nation by the Sports Editors of America for more than a decade. Being named top sports columnist is the highest honor in the field. Mitch Albom has done work with TV stations such as ABC and ESPN. Albom is on many charitable boards and has founded two charities himself in metropolitan Detroit. The charities are: The Dream Fund and A Time to Help, a monthly volunteer program. He continues to live in Michigan with his wife, Janine. Mitch Albom is not only a well respected columnist but also a much respected book writer. Evaluation:
After seeing his old professor and college mentor on TV, Mitch Albom was determined to get in touch with Morrie Schwartz. Mitch did just that and it began one of the best experiences of his life. Mitch was there every Tuesday talking with Morrie and listening to the wise things he had to say. Mitch was there as Morrie was slowly dying. They talked about everything, family, aging, life. Morrie had lived his life to the fullest and was satisfied with the things he has accomplished. Mitch cherished the Tuesdays he was able to spend with this extraordinary man and hear the things he had to teach. This book was definitely a touching book in my opinion. The things that Morrie speaks of in the book really made me think about my life. It made me wonder if I was living my own life to the fullest. The fact that Morrie is so brave and courageous is very inspiring. Many people fear death, but not many people ever get to the point where they can accept it, and that's just what Morrie did. Morrie was an amazing man who had an incredible attitude toward everything. I think that everyone could learn something from the things that Morrie said, I know I did.
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Summary: Tuesday Afternoon
Review: Wonderful, heart-warming true story! Inspiring and motivating! I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially those who are in the process of losing a loved one... Two Thumbs Way Up!
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Summary: "Love each other or die"
Review: There is no doubt about it: Mitch Albom struck more than a chord with this homage to the life and passing of outstanding professor Morrie Schwartz. Telling the story of his weekly Tuesday meetings with Morrie, his old professor that was going through the pains of degenerative disease ALS, Albom evolves as a human being as Morrie approaches his final days, and he realizes how much we place importance on the wrong things in life and how much we fear leaving life altogether. It is practically impossible to quote the book without leaving out something meaningful: that powerful (yet simple) is this tale, to the point of being the only book I can recall having read once again after I read it the first time. And nowadays Morrie's message is as important as it was a few years ago, when the book first came out: "Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place... Love each other or die."
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: This book was spectacular. Mitch Albom shares stories and life lessons learned from his old professor, Morrie Schwartz. Mitch clearly introduces Morrie and shares everything he knows about him. The reader really gets attached to Morrie and feels like he or she knew this splendid person his or her entire life. Morrie shares all about his experiences and his ideas on life. He has a very positive attitude which keeps him going, it seems. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to appreciate the values of life and learn all about it. To hear how everyone Morrie met was moved by the way he reached out to them is special. A single person touched so many lives and always reached out. We learn about what makes Morrie so special and why he is so respected by so many people. This book truly explains the meaning of life from one man's point of view and shares his incredible story.
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Summary: great book Mrs. Rymes
Review: I found this book at Amazon.com and thought you might find it of interest.This is a great book about life and death. After reading this book you will begin to live your life day by day. This book teaches you how to value life for what it is.
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Summary: Best Book Ever Read
Review: Tuesdays With Morrie is a beautifully written book by Mitch Albom. It is his own true story, about Albom's own battle in the process of loosing his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz. Albom flies to visit Morrie every Tuesday for him to teach Albom life's greatest lessons. These include lessons about the world, feeling sorry for yourself, regrets, death, family, and many more life-changing lessons.This book is filled with inspiring quotes, which if you read carefully, could deeply move you. "In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well." Albom kept visiting Morrie until the day-before he died, and in the process learned a better way to live life. In other words, this is a story about experiencing life through the death of a close friend. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars!!
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Summary: Appreciate life while you can!
Review: If you have not read this book, you should! Life is the most precious gift that we all have to share. In this book, Morrie makes a choice to share his. He does not want to be remembered as this broken down old man that left nothing behind. He wants to be remembered as a teacher and a giver. It's what all of us aspire to be. If you hate reading, get the movie with Jack Lemon and Hank Azaria! It's worth the few bucks!
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