Rating: Summary: Great Book Review: This book was a wonderful reminder of life. It was heartfelt and warm and I think everyone should read it. You will relate to this book no matter who you are and reminds us all to take advantage of every minute we have.
Rating: Summary: If you know how to die you will know to live. Review: The best learners are the ones who teach others what they learnd. Some times we learn things on the hard way. The smart people learns from others mistaqes. Even when we're dying we still able to learn and teach. The perfict day when a persons feels that he or she taught some one how to love and how to live.
Rating: Summary: You'll cry too Review: It's almost unfair to write a review for this book. It's unlike anything I have ever read before. It's neither a biography, a novel nor is it a self-help book. It's an incredible short story of a person's journey over the last bridge between life and death. I rarely cry as a result of anything which I learned from Morrie to be a slightly bad thing in that I do not like to show my emotions, but by the end of this story, my eyes were most definitely red. It's not a long book. I doubt it would take anybody more than a few hours to read, but it is very profound. There are a number of topics within which will force you to reflect on what you think is important and your life and maybe make you want to connect with a lost relative or friend too.
Rating: Summary: The book of everything... Review: The fact that it is a real story makes it absolutely beautiful. It touches your heart just like Mitch touched his Coach's heart.It also reminded me of The Prophet with its universal message of love, humanity and death. It is such a nice feeling to go back and pick up where you left off. As the professor said .. not everyone gets this chance. It makes you realize how short life is .. how precious everyday thing is .. waking up to the birds singing .. rain .. sunshine. Life takes us within its circles without a deep breath to take and relax .. running after success and money ...forgetting our friends and crushing our emotions .. Albom narrates his story and describes his relationship with his teacher, and shifts from the present to the past, and then you go with him and visit his teacher again... without feeling the passage of time. He shows his feelings and expresses his fears in a natural subtle way that you quickly identify with him and know exactly what he is talking about. I truly enjoyed it.
Rating: Summary: The Best Book I Ever Read! Review: This book was amazing! I picked it up as a hard headed person with my own view on the world and how it works. After listening to all of Morrie's life stories and lessons to be told, I put the book down as a totally new person! It's sad but in one book, I learned more in a few hours than in my whole life! There are certain books that are best for people to read for certain trials in their lives, Tuesdays With Morrie is good for all of those trials! I highly recommend it to anyone in the market for some good laughs and cries.
Rating: Summary: Book Review For English... Review: The book that I chose to read for my independent reading assignment was "tuesdays with Morrie," by Mitch Albom. This book is by far one of the best books that I have ever read. Not only do you get to read about two amazing characters Mitch and Morrie, but you get to learn one of lifes greatest lessons. The lesson being not to take things for granted. Morrie really represented a man who stood for what he believed in and helped everyone around him. I reccommend this book to anyone who has ever loss someone they loved or are in the process of watching someone they really care about die. For me I related to this book simply because my grandfather is Morrie's age and he is dying right now. I learned that you have to be there for them because they want someone to listen to what is going on in their lives. Morrie always wanted people to talk to him and come visit and that is how my grandfather is. After, reading this book I now realize just how precious life is and how you as an indiviual can have an affect on someone. With that being said I think everyone should own a copy of this book and then watch the movie to compare the two.
Rating: Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie Review: Mitch Albom was a student of sociologist Morrie Schwartz at Brandeis University. At graduation he promised to keep in touch with his old professor, but as time went on this promise faded away. Nearly twenty years later Albom, now a sports writer, was flipping through the channels when he saw his old professor on "Nightline" and discovered how sick he actually was. Morrie was suffering from ALS, or Lou Gerhig's disease, which slowly wastes away your muscles. After seeing this show Mitch flew up to Boston to visit his dying teacher. After their first reunion Mitch continued to visit every Tuesday afternoon. They were "Tuesday people". Tuesdays with Morrie is a touching story that discusses the meaning of life. It is a small book with a large message. Though this story never actually tells the reader what the true meaning of life is, it does expand on the professor's sayings. These include "Love is the only rational act", "Love each other or perish", "death ends a life, not a relationship". Albom calls his weekly visits with Morrie their last class together and the theme "the meaning of life". The topics of this class included life, death, marriage, money, family, and other such issues. Though the author did bring a tape recorder to their classes he did not provide a full transcript of these discussions. Instead he focused on those Morrie's little aphorisms. He was able to tie just about everything to love. To Morrie there is no life without love. He looked down upon our culture saying that it taught all of the wrong values and trains us to hold in our emotions and feelings. This book comes close to being almost too sentimental, but stops before it gets excessively sappy. Towards the end of the book Albom tells us how this book was largely Morrie's idea. He called it their final thesis. The money that the publishers advanced was used to pay for the majority Morrie's overwhelming medical bills. One of the things that draw readers to this book may be the fantasy of revisiting our old friends that we haven't seen or heard from in several years. What would it be like if we got the chance to see these people again and tell them how much me care about them? Tuesdays with Morrie tells us do this before it's too late. It was almost too late for Mitch. In the end though, he really made a difference in his teacher's life, and vice versa.
Rating: Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie Review: Tuesdays with Morrie was a great book. It gives the readers a view of life from a different pespective and not from the usual norm that society expects from us. With this book, Morrie is giving the readers the opportunity to analyze their life style and reflect on in. We need to make the best of it, and not waver on it, because if we do we may not have the change to enjoy it to the fullest.
Rating: Summary: An eye opening experience Review: This book was truly an eye opening experience leaving us all wondering about their own mortality. Morrie brings positive thoughts and gives all who read a different outlook on life. Morrie was truly an amazing man and great mentor.If you are looking for inner strength this is the book for you!
Rating: Summary: Great Book!!! Review: This book is great I really liked. It was hard to put it down, I felt specially toched by the telgram Morrie had to read to his father when Morrie's mother had past away. Morrie's memmorie will go on with this great book. I wish that I would get the great oppourtunity to meet such a great teacher. I plan to be a teacher myself and he has motivated me into being a great teacher.I recomend that you not only read but add this book to your home library!!!
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