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Summary: A Moving and Thought-Provoking Book
Review: Mitch Albom's book is a tremendous tool for those who want to think about loss and grief. The book can be quite depressing because of the emotions being experienced vicariously through the story. One can benefit greatly from the story and from learning the life lessons that are presented. Those who are already depressed may want to avoid this one! Those who really want to ponder life and death, loss and grief, and the meaning of life will be moved by this book.Paul Heier, author of Leading Out of Love
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Summary: Tuesdays Forever
Review: "Tuesdays With Morrie" is a touching story about a student's connection with his college professor. They enriched each other's lives in more ways than one. Everyone hopes to find that professor who will change their life. Morrie was that professor, and Mitch Albom was that student. Every student should read this book. Albom made you feel for Morrie. You laughed with him, you cried with him, you loved him. Every Tuesday during school, Mitch would meet with Morrie to discuss his papers. Years after college, Mitch found out Morrie was sick. He had ALS. Mitch had lost contact with Morrie because he was so wrapped up in his own life. Mitch decided to pay his old professor a visit. He ended up coming back every Tuesday for his "final class" and Morrie's "final lesson". Morrie never feared death or his illness. In fact, he embraced it. This book is very inspirational. We shouldn't lose touch with those who have touched our lives. Albom grew into a more mature and intelligent man. You could see his growth through his words. He grew because of Morrie. An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson. That is the subtitle of this book. Nothing could describe it more perfectly. Mitch's meetings with Morrie became his last class. On those Tuesdays, Mitch and Morrie talked about such things as death, forgiveness, and the perfect day. Morrie's perfect day was just spending it with family and close friends. He didn't need to spend money or travel the world. He taught Mitch, and now, anyone who reads this book, that the best things in life are the people who love you. Through Albom's writing, you could get a vivid picture of Morrie. Mitch made you care about what happend to him and Morrie. This book was beautifully written and was easy to read and understand. The fact that it's a true story makes it even more touching. Morrie was a real person. He wasn't just some thought in someone's imagination. He helped so many people during his life, and now, because of Mitch, he will touch many more after death.
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Summary: Book Full of Love and Compassion for Humanity
Review: Morrie said, "the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." The book is full of these kinds of sayings. They are wonderful. I wish I would have written them all down. What a simple but powerful book! I have thought about interviewing my parents, brothers and sisters because of the inspiration this book provides. I did get my Grandmother Jane on videotape before she died. The tape is quite a treasure. This book is a wealth of information about human love and compassion. People of all ages should read this. I can't wait for Mitch's next book, because I know it will be straight from the heart. :) Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
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Summary: Short and sweet
Review: This was a short and sweet read. I thoroughly enjoyed the book even though I had seen the movie (which was also excellent). No, this isn't going to win the Pulitzer Prize, but it will warm your heart and start you thinking about what your life means, where you've been, and where you're going. Some of the ideas presented in this book may be rolling around in your head already--volunteering, activism in the community, doing what really makes you happy--and some may not. Read it anyway for it is inspirational and moving. Also recommended: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by Jackson McCrae and DECEPTION POINT
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: Discover the Meaning of Life Through the Heart Touching Story of Death Mitch Albom takes writing a true story to a new level. He tells the life changing account of his experience with his mentor, Morrie, his college professor and great friend, who he lost touch with after graduation. After many years, Morrie's illness brings them back together for a final lesson, a class on the importance of life, love, and appreciating the beauty in everyday life. I love how Morrie will capture your heart and make you want to call your friends and family. You will laugh, cry, and find truth in this simple, but yet so very complex story.Everyone owes it to themselves to read this book
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie was an excellent book. It is very down to earth, very easy to relate to. By the end of my reading I felt like I almost knew Morrie personally. I honestly hate to read but with this particular novel I could not put it down.
Morrie Schwatz was a history professor at Brandeis University. Mitch Albom, a former student of Morrie's and a well known sports writer. Mitch was reunited with Morrie several years later after the doctors diagnosed Morrie with ALS. Mitch had heard about Morrie's diagnoses from an interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline. Once Mitch got wind of the news he decided to go and visit Morrie. Mitch's job had gone on strike so that allowed him the time to go and visit Morrie. The visit actually turned into a regular meeting every Tuesday. Morrie was a well spoken man he was so full of wisdom and knowledge. If I was a character in the book I believe that I could just sit all day and listen to Morrie talk. Morrie would always talk to Mitch about different subjects, some of their conversations were on the touchy side and others were not. Due to Morrie's diagnoses every Tuesday that Mitch would go to visit him, Mitch would noticed that Morrie's health was on a decline each time. Morrie always told Mitch what was on his mind. Morrie I guess you could say was real or well more real than other people out there in today's world. Morrie once went to a funeral and said, "what a waste all those people saying wonderful thing and the guy that died didn't even get to hear them." Morrie said to Mitch as a word of knowledge, "forgive yourself, forgive others, don't wait." Morrie said, "the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." Morrie said that the one thing he hated most about his disease was knowing that one day he would not be able to go to the bathroom by himself. Toward the end of Morrie's life he actually saw that day. In the book it says that on the 14 Tuesday Morrie and Mitch more or less say good bye to each other. Morrie passed away on the following Saturday and was buried the following Tuesday. Morrie's main thing was to teach Mitch the right ways of life. How not to be tied up in all the hustle and bustle of the world today. But to actually sit down and look at what's around. To look at the meaningful things in live and what they bring to you. Its crazy how our society works that it takes someone dying or a tragedy for people to realize what life really means.
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Summary: "Death ends a life, not a relationship."
Review: Death ends a life, not a relationship. Love conquers all. Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albom know better. After Mitch Albom had parted with his favorite professor Morrie Schwartz after some 20 years, Albom, a struggling former musician, had become the No. 1 sports columnist. When Nightline broadcasted a show on the dying professor, who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable neurological illness that melts the nerves in the brain, Albom rediscovered his enamored mentor from college in the final leg of the old man's life. Albom poignantly regretted that he had not kept in contact as he promised at graduation and got on a plane and visited the gentle old man sooner, before the disease ravaged his nerves and robbed him for his life basics. But if the old man taught his student-friend anything at all, it was the fact that nothing was too late in life. As Albom rekindled the friendship with his professor whose life was as if being marked off by crossing the days on the calendar, their encounter turned into a final class that met every Tuesday on the meaning of life. Tuesdays with Morrie is the transcription of this encounter, Morrie's concluding remarks on the meaning of life, taught from life experience, with a sense of complete detachment of the world and inveterate cultural values. This final lecture challenges Albom and all of us in the values of death, love, money, marriage, emotion, family, regret and culture. The more Mitch conversed with Morrie, the more he realized how much his insights of life had faded and gone astray. As the old man sidled closer to death, the things Morrie said in his last months transcended all religious differences with a profundity that calls everyone to re-evaluate, to cudgel the meaning of life. Morrie reiterated and advocated for love, which allows one to die without really "going away", for the love one created in lifetime was still embraced in memories. Maybe death really had a way to make one learn how to live. The one amazing thing about Morrie is that he decided he would not be ashamed of dying for he saw death as yet a beginning. 2004 (23) © MY
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Summary: excellent read with excellent lessons
Review: Tuesdays With Morrie is an inspiring story that everyone should visit. Its a quick read with a big message.
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Summary: book review
Review: Tuesday's With Morrie was an excellent book. It was an easy read even for those people who might be considered reluctant readers. Mitch Albom is an excellent author, and he did a wonderful job telling this story. He does a terrific job keeping the reader at the edge of their seat and making you want to turn the pages. When you are reading Tuesday's With Morrie you feel like you have become one of the many people in the book who grow attached to this man, Morrie who is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). After I was through reading this book I recommended it to everyone. When I returned the book, my local librarian told me she had several people on a waiting list for a copy of Tuesday's With Morrie. Again, I would recommend this book to even the most reluctant reader. It will touch your heart just as it did mine.
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Summary: A great book.
Review: The most impressive thing about Morrie that comes through in this book is his humanity. Morrie doesn't try to make his disease look better or worse than it is, nor is he the victim of it. He brilliantly conveys his sense of what makes a life worth living; it's not making money, or being famous, or working ones self to exhaustion. Morrie focuses on those things we can look back on at the end of our lives and know that our time on this planet was not wasted, "are you giving to your community", "are you at peace with yourself". One of the most important of these to Morrie is relationship, specifically asking "Have you found someone to share your heart with". Some people would ask that question and you would feel compelled to smack them, but with Morrie, it feels like he is asking to bring us closer to ourselves, as if only by giving to another can we fully be alive.
On the topic of relationships, I have another book I'd like to recommend to you, "Working on Your Relationship Doesn't Work" by Ariel and Shya Kane. It reveals the Kanes unique approach to having people rediscover their ability to create and maintain over time relationships that are vibrant and alive. The book has both theoretical foundations for relating and intimate vignettes from the Kanes seminars that allow you to see these principles in action.
I highly recommend both of these books to you.
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