Tuesdays With Morrie : An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (AUDIO CASSETTE)

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Summary: A Warning to Potential Readers
Review: I would advise you to avoid reading this book if you do not wish to think about the choices you are making in your life, or do not like to get choked up and think of people you miss, or if you don't want to suddenly feel the need to hug your kids, then call your parents just to chat. It is a short, simple book and quick read, but if you have appointments to get to, people you need to control, or places and things that require your attention, this might get in the way of your plans. You might suddenly want to work in a garden, rock a baby, listen to music or sit quietly and relish how fortunate you are to be alive.
If you are willing to take the risks that might be associated with reading this story, perhaps you will find that it was a very good way to spend your afternoon...perhaps you will find that you have some fresh ideas about how you will spend your next weekend...perhaps you will even find that you want to really think about how you will spend the rest of your life. Those are pretty impressive results for a short, simple book that's a quick read!

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Summary: Living 101, as Taught by a Dying Man
Review: This memoir of a professor's last days is a small book, but its lessons in living leave a big and lasting impression. Morrie Swartz had a hard childhood but he grew into a man who loved life. As a college professor, he always had a bonus for his students - a lesson in living. He continued to enjoy every moment of life even while he watched himself die the slow death of Lou Gehrig's Disease. The author visited with his old professor Morrie every Tuesday during the last weeks of Morrie's life, and in recording their conversations, he allowed Morrie to leave a lesson plan in living for all of us. You'll not only want to read it again and again yourself, but you'll want to tell everybody you know to read it.

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Summary: The truth about life
Review: Mitch Albom takes his readers through a journey of love, friendship, life and death. This is a story that Morrie himself would have applauded. After seeing his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz, on "Nightline," Albom discovered his long lost professor and friend was terminally ill.
Having lost contact with the professor for sixteen years, Morrie caught Albom's eye on television, discussing with the world a disease that would not only take his life, but provide an opportunity to change the lives of those he encountered.
This book is filled with lessons, not in a scholastic sense, but life lessons that must otherwise be learned the hard way.
Through Mitch Albom, his final student, Morrie provides an in depth look at the lifestyle and attitudes of a man, dying happy.
Albom shares with us the trying aspects of their friendship, the beauty in their relationship, and the wisdom gained from both perspectives.
From reminiscing the college days, to experiencing death for the first time and experiencing life in a new light, Mitch Albom talks about his Tuesday visits with Morrie as if he had no life beyond this friendship. He explains his initial reluctance and discomfort, and later describes Morrie's overpowering honesty and confrontational approach to solving problems of any nature.
Morrie addresses concerns and solutions to a variety of issues including religion, family, embarrassment, relational discomfort, death of a loved one, and the process of dying.
From these lessons, for Albom and for the reader, humility and gratitude is achieved. This is not a book that must be re-read to remember the story, yet the story never grows old. Like popping in a favorite Disney movie at bed time or jamming out to a favorite song while doing chores, "Tuesdays with Morrie" is inspirational. Not only through each lesson taught to Mitch Albom, but through the disclosure of the carefree lifestyle and adventures of Morrie Swartz, Albom's interviews with Morrie motivate the reader, and seemingly force a self-analysis approach to understanding the meaning behind much of Morrie's statements and clichés. Albom describes Morrie as having always been a teacher of involvement. In one section of the book, Albom discusses Morrie's anti-war display when he gave every student in his class an "A" to help avoid the draft.
Morrie's standpoint on life, though fully bloomed as death approached, had always been to help others. Morrie's philosophy on happiness stemmed from a view of how much happiness one could bring to others.
This book guides readers through its purpose, allowing them to see the sincerity and love in Morrie's humorous personality and perspective of life. This book will leave a lasting vision imprinted into your mind of what true happiness and contentment really is, and how to achieve it through humility and friendliness. "Tuesdays with Morrie" provides a gripping look at the life of Morrie Swartz, a man who lived to teach. This book is a must read for people of all ages, gender and race. Upon reiterating the purpose of the publication of "Tuesdays with Morrie," Albom put it best in the last four words of the story, "The teaching goes on."

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Summary: Changed My Life!
Review: Two books have changed my life. Tuesdays with Morrie challenged me to live every day fully and not take any relationship for granted. Everyone should read this. A reader told me if I liked this book to read an excerpt of a novel by Kirk Martin at thegraveldrive.com. I did and I was hooked! The Gravel Drive changed the way I look at my kids and I will never be the same. "Time only moves forward and each second that is passed will never be regained." Every parent needs to read Martin's book. Both are full of simple wisdom that will change your life.

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Summary: Life Lessons For All Ages
Review: Morrie's message in this book is for all ages. Being a 17 year old, you wouldn't think that the lessons Mitch is trying to obtain from Morrie would have any affect on my own life. But everything he wanted to know, I did too.
Death, life, love, and self acceptance are things that I deal with in my everyday life. I loved this book because it brings together the most important aspects of living, and relates it to the reader. I think that everyone can relate to this book, and learn something from it. With so many emotions and feelings I have at this point in my life, Morrie's thoughts on "detaching yourself" from them really hit me. I completely agree with having to expierence something fully inorder to understand the emotion. "By throwing yourself into these emotiongs...over your head even, you experience them fully and completely...and only then you can say, 'alright. I ahve experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion'."(p104) My favortie quote: "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."(p104)

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Summary: Good book but a little over-rated
Review: Although over-rated, this was a good book with some good life lessons. You don't like Mitch, but you can't help identifying with him because we are all guilty of these wasteful ways of living life. The writing and the lessons were a bit too simplistic to my liking. I heard a lot of raves about this book and my friend actually recommended it. I was a little disappointed that the book didn't move me (on an emotional level) - maybe I just had too high expectations.

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Summary: Morrie is very wise...
Review: I really enjoyed reading this novel. I have a very short attention span, hence the fact that this is the first book that I have completed ince high school. This book is very important for me, as I learned a lot about life from a dying man. How else can you get into contact with that sort of teaching? You'll rarely find that level of honesty. The most memorable thing Morrie told Mitch: "WHen you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

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Summary: Life's Lessons
Review: I loved this book because it teaches us many lessons. It teaches us about the importance of life and how not to let it pass us by. It also teaches us about death and not taking life for granted. Morrie was a teacher and he was dying. He taught his last lesson and that was how to die graciously.

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Summary: Truly, a Touching Story
Review: The novel, Tuesdays with Morrie is a touching and true documentary of the relationship between old friends, Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albom, the book's author. When Mitch Albom graduated from Brandeis College, he had promised his professor and friend, Morrie Schwartz that he would keep in touch. Mitch did not keep this promise and they grew apart. One evening while watching Nightline, an interview program, Mitch was surprised to see Morrie on the show. The show talked about how Morrie suddenly got a disease called ALS. Their affection for each other was rekindled when Mitch contacted Morrie after seeing the Nightline interview. Mitch would fly in from Detroit to visit Morrie every Tuesday to talk with him. They would have deep conversations about many aspects of life such as the world, marriage, regrets, death, family, and so on. Mitch, with Morrie's permission, recorded Morrie's wise words on a tape in order to remember him when his time was up. However, as the Tuesdays rolled by, Morrie's health deteriorated.He knew that these were the last days of his life, and soon he slipped into a coma.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants a new outlook on life and a few wise words. You can share with Mitch, all of the life lessons that Morrie taught him. It is extremely hard to put this book down once you start to read it.

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Summary: It could have been sad, but Morrie chose to make it amazing.
Review: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch learns some of the most important things in life through his old professor and beloved friend, Morrie. As the years after college pass by, things change and Mitch has broken his promise to always stay in touch. Until one night, Mitch is flipping through the TV channels, finally taking a break from work, which he never seems to do anymore. He sees Morrie on the "Nightline" show talking about how he's been battling the illness ALS. Mitch realizes now more than ever, he must find Morrie before it's too late. After he does this, Mitch and Morrie begin to meet every Tuesday, and only on Tuesdays because they are Tuesday people. They don't share small talk; they actually have a conversation. Morrie teaches Mitch the answers to some of life's hardest questions. In the last class of his life, Morrie teaches about the world, feeling sorry for yourself, regrets, death, family, emotions, the fear of aging, money, how love goes on, marriage, culture, the perfect day, and saying good-bye. Morrie seems to find such peace and simplicity in such hard topics. He shares every ounce of his wisdom with Mitch. On their last visit together, they say good-bye, and Mitch finally cries; Morrie finally got him. During the burial, as he promised, Mitch tries talking to Morrie through his thoughts, and it seems so easy. That's when he finally looks down at his watch and realizes its because, it's Tuesday.
I would definitely recommend this book. I've never read anything that had as much meaning and purpose to it as this book does. In every chapter, I found a page to mark of a lesson or saying that I wanted to share with someone. I learned so much and gained such an amazing perspective on life that I never used to have. No mater who you are, what your age, or where you're from, there's something to be learned from Morrie. It could have been sad, but Morrie chose to make it amazing.