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Summary: A Most Touching, Inspirational Memoir
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie touched my soul, helping me to understand death, dying and growing old with dignity. Mitch and Morrie shared a passionate, respectful friendship that is rare, especially considering the age difference. Nevertheless, these two men taught one another, along with the readers, so much about life, respect, getting old, and mostly, how to enjoy the little things we all take for granted.Morrie showed great courage as he slowly faded away. Through his stories, I understood what aging, death and dying is like, and how we should respect the request of the elderly, terminally ill, or those we just fail to understand. I found this book an inspiration to me, and others. I cried, laughed, mostly -- I understood what Morrie and Mitch taught us. As the author of A Condition of Limbo, I realized after reading Tuesdays with Morrie, our stories are similar, filled with love, admiration and a new understanding of the terminally ill.
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Summary: Worth reading, but...
Review: I went looking this summer for books that would make a difference in my life. Tuesdays With Morrie is a good read, and I enjoyed it. It was not the deep life-changing experience I was looking for, however. I liked it, wouldn't discourage anyone from buying it, but it seemed like just a book. ...
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Summary: Great book, poor quality CD
Review: The story is phenomenal, and I highly recommend it - however, the CD quality left something to be desired. It kept fading in and out (and I tested it on several systems to make sure it wasn't just mine - it wasn't, it's definitely the CD). Bummer, as it's kind of distracting to such a powerful story.
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Summary: A profound and deeply moving inspiration.
Review: That is how I would describe Morrie, an old man with a young heart, who faces his impending death by passing on his life's wisdom to Mitch Albom. Mitch and Morrie have written a book that will have an effect on the way you view things in your life, and may even motivate you to make some changes. I have read tons of self-help books, and none come close to what Morrie has to say about life, and about death. Mitch has done his old professor proud, leaving a legacy of words behind that will not soon be forgotten. It is an easy book to read, I read it in one day, yet it stays with you and haunts you until you take a serious look at what it says. Morrie is a man I now feel I knew, his words strike an intense chord within. You will not be able to deny the effect they will have on you. Bravo Mitch Albom, this book is superb!
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Summary: An inspiration to All
Review: This book is for anyone who has ever gone through a difficult phase of their life. It explores the relationship between a dying man who is experiencing life anew and a young man who is just learning to live life. Compact and easy to gobble away in one sitting, this book should be cherished and savored for the lessons it offers. It gives a new insight for anyone who is afraid of the unknown and also makes one reflect on areas of life that can easily be taken away with worry over little things.
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Summary: This book is good for all ages, an easy read
Review: Morrie was an old friend of Mitch's and they were reunited after Mitch saw a program on the telivition about a rare dieses morrie had. Mitch stated going to Morries house frequently, and after his first visit with him, morrie started to give somthing like a lesson every week, every tuesday. This is great if you have had a loved one pass away, or if you need uplift, an occational life lesson, or even if you just want a wonderful book to read, as you follow morrie through his wisdom, pain and desise, and mitch though reality and regret. An easy read, im only 13, an average student and i read it easly in a week. A real tear jerker.
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: I really liked this book. It is a great book to read. I hate to read and this is a good book for anyone who does not like to read at all. This book has a good story line to it. It helps you to understand what a teacher will do for a student. I had a very good teacher that helped me in so many ways. This teacher I had in college. I still keep in touch with him and I am glad that I do because if something happened to him I just don't know what I would do. I would go on with life but part of me will always miss him when he is come. He is a wonderful teacher. He has helped me in the past and he is still helping me today. I went to a two year college and I have my associate's degree in computers and where I am from there are not a lot of jobs around here and I am having trouble finding a full time job and all I want is a chance to get a job in computers. I went to talk to him not along and I decided to go back to school and I am that I am going back to school. I am going back to school for some more computers-(up to date classes). Without my teacher to guide me in the right direction I don't know what I would have done. My teacher cares about all of his students that he has now and the students that he had in the past too. Reading this book helped me to understand my teacher awhole lot better.
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Summary: "Love each other or perish."
Review: Most people know the storyline by now: after nearly two decades of separation, a man returns to his dying mentor, a former college professor, for one last lesson on living. They've even made a television movie out of it. What seems to be lost in all of the hype surrounding this book is the richness of its inherent message: Seize the day, live as though there were no tomorrow, laugh and cry and kiss and hug, listen to the music, dance, enjoy nature, have "living funerals", love each other-these are things about which we should be intentional every day, not just when we are forced to confront our lives by the death of a loved one or an unexpected event. People talk about this book as a heartwarming story, reducing it to a kind of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" rather than the philosophy of how to live (and die) that it is. This book does not claim to reveal the meaning of life, or even give answers to the "big questions", but it does portray a man who had the courage to live and die fully, something most people lack. It is for this reason that the book and its author are to be commended: not because the book will make you laugh or cry (although it might do both), but because it is a celebration of living, and of both the high and low moments of the journey we all have in common.
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Summary: For all ages and such a treat to read.....
Review: Who will like this book? Well.... people who have or have had or who may have that special one person who becomes a mentor, who is a combination of excellent listener and speak wisely when one speaks mode. Who will not like this book. People who can't see beyond themselves or who have ignored the would be mentors and probably have some deep sense of loss that they refuse to admit to. This is a great book because it is one of those books that a family can read aloud and learn a great deal from. Kids going off to University should recieve it as a gift, so they might pause a tad longer and look anew at the Professor who is teaching them lessons they will cherish for decades later. It is a treasure for those of us long out of college/university and those who have never been, because it is a simple reminder that somewhere if we look a bit harder we too will see we have had or have a treasure like Morrie in our own lives. And I would go so far as to suggest that you buy a copy for your local library and have then put a bookplate inside that says it is being given in honour of a great mentor, and then have the name noted.
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Summary: Life lessons for those who listen
Review: I picked up the book in a store by intuition, as I sometimes do that. Then I started reading it and continued until finished. One of the best books I have ever read, with lots of brilliant words and ideas (that we think we know, but often forget) to help us go through life and experience it at its best, a book for us - people who live, not just exist.
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