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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie. I thought this book was an absolute wonder. This was one of the greatest books I have ever read.
It will make you look at life all differently. Everyone should read this book. It is a must. I guarantee that you will fall in love with Morrie, forgive Mitch, and just thank Charlotte. This book is absolutely wonderful.
This book is a must for everyone in the world and of all ages.
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Summary: A good book
Review: Tuesdays with morrie was a good book. It rellay teachs good lessons about how to live and how to feel about dieing.
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Summary: A fine book about a horrible death
Review: Not really about Morrie, this book was recommended to me by so many people that I had to read it. Yes, its worth reading if only because of Mitch Albom's honesty. I still look forward to hearing from Morrie's wife whose story would be of benefit to anyone who has tended the death of a loved one. While it may not be pretty--death is afterall a nasty, painful, and ugly business--...
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Summary: dreck
Review: A slim volume of advice that is shallow and insignificant offered to a writer who is vain and selfish. There are many other, better books that offer insights into ordinary Americans that this one does. Try, At Home in the Heart of Appalacia instead.
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Summary: Good, not really great
Review: Everyone else rehashed the book, so all I will offer are comments:- Not surprised to see it was a TV movie. The author's TV experience came through - it's written to be easily scripted into one, with all the repetition of "we're Tuesday people" and "I'm dying - don't say that - it's true." Think the book owes a large debt to Brian's Song which, I don't think coincidentally, involved a sports figure. - For my taste, a bit too much detail about Morrie's medical deterioration. - Delighted to see somebody besides me talk about the value of "making your own culture." Best thing in the book! - Historical note - I think it's true that those in the "Greatest Generation," while stuck with serious challenges at early ages, were in a social setting which strongly encouraged, facilitated, and rewarded their meeting them courageously, and (at least for those who survived) provided vastly easier establishment in life than for we mid-baby boomers. However, how many of my fellow 44-year-olds made it from such truly austere and awful childhoods to become the like of good college professors? Some from the inner cities, but Morrie's past was much more typical of his generation. Hard to imagine, in a way. Why good but not great? Excellent insights get it to the former, but the book doesn't even try to advise on implementation. There are thousands of philosophy-and-advice books materially as good without a tiny sliver of the fame of this one - to name just one, Reflections in a Pumpkin Field by Jay Brickman.
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Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll learn.
Review: I'm not one to normally read the books that everyone else is reading, but I did break down to read Mitch Albom's story of his final class with his former college professor Morrie Schwartz. Albom is an excellent writer. He draws the reader in quickly and tells a wonderful tale. I was able to finish the book in a single evening. The story, as most know, follows self-absorbed Albom as he spends Tuesdays with his dying professor. In the process, Albom learns a thing or two about death, and about life. The consummate journalist, he brings Morrie questions about death, marriage, family, forgiveness, regret, and culture. The books is a beautiful study in dying and should be required reading for sociology courses. Not only did the book help me think about my priorities, but it was also entertaining, providing several out-loud laughs, and moments of tears. While it's a bit shallow on the spiritual side of things, I still highly recommend it.
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Summary: A life-altering book.
Review: In "Tuesdays With Morrie," Mitch Albom captures precisely and powerfully the most important quality of death: emotion. In addition, the reader is exposed to the beliefs of a dying man (Morrie) about what is important in life. These two themes, emotion and values, are unmistakably connected in Morrie's beliefs. As Mitch Albom narrates the last days of his great teacher, he realizes that life becomes incredibly more rich and meaningful when one values love, companionship, and human dignity above the economic values of a materialistic society. Even more importantly, he finds that these values are suppressed, in spite of good intentions, if one does not express emotions openly and frequently. The reader learns with Mitch that to value love, one must live it, an invaluable lesson for all.
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Summary: The Memory of Life
Review: This book helps one see the continuation of life even during the dying process. It is definately "heart felt".....has the power to make you cry....It may not be for every person..but for the person who is facing a terminally ill situation, it will be very helpful and is extremely readable. I am very pleased that this man was not "forgotten" but that the experience that happened with the very busy newscaster and the old professor will live on and be of service to many through this book.
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Summary: Erika's review
Review: The book tuesday with morrie is an great book. It has some much details as you read it. As well as great advice and insperation. Morrie, a great professor and a wonderful man that learns about his illness and has to learn how to live and cope with this, knowing that, that day will be here alot sooner then anybody knows. Mitch Albon one of his past student that was devoted to his teacher's great teaching, meet up and discuss great life knowledging stories of the past, present, and future.
Such a heart warming story You don,t want to miss out.
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Summary: Life's Greatest Lessons
Review: When reading this instant classic book called Tuesdays With Morrie written by Mitch Albom, you learn about life's greatest lessons during a professor's last class. In March of 1995, Mitch, a successful newspaper sports writer is watching TV when he hears his old professors name (Morrie Schwartz) mentioned on the nightly news show Nightline. The show was about how Morrie was dealing with his diagnosis of the fatal disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The next thing you know, Mitch is driving into his old professor's driveway, about to see him for the first time since Mitch's graduation from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1979 when he promised they would keep in touch. Their reorientation goes well and after a few visits, Mitch sees signs of death in Morrie and is scared by this. Mitch's answer to this problem is to tape record all their visits so Morrie can teach him one last lesson in life. After fourteen Tuesdays visits between Morrie and his old student Mitch where they discuss many of life's most troubling topics, and also Morrie is featured in two more Nightline appearances, Morrie Schwartz dies on Saturday morning in his home due to his disease.
I think everyone needs to read this excellent book. It makes the reader realize that it's not too late to become a better person. Also, death must be accepted or you aren't truly living. There are so many more great lessons to learn from this tremendous book, even though, at times it can be slow. If you want to read a great book, with inspirational power, read Tuesdays With Morrie.
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