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Summary: An insightful look into life
Review: This is a remarkable work, not because of Morrie Schwartz' words or example but because of the obvious transformation Mitch Albom underwent during his final experiences with Morrie. While the book's action is centered around Morrie, I took away more from the between-the-lines struggle of Mitch. This is a quick read that I have already made plans to re-read.
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Summary: Life is too short to sweat the small stuff
Review: Live life at its fullest for any moment may be your last. Little lessons in life which seem so obvious we sometimes seem to forget them. Not a literary book, but a good read.
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Summary: cheap sentimentality
Review: The emotions described here have all the weight and sincerity of drugstore greeting cards. The author is a TV sportswriter and it shows. I believe that the author had some genuine affection and devotion for Morrie, but he has not successfully captured that here. Instead, his prose comes across as shallow, manipulative and insincere. If I were the author, I'd take a year off and go live by myself in a remote cabin and re-write this book, ripping each word from my heart. This book here is just too facile, too TV-esque. The only thing that the author seems truly heartfuelt about is the awe in which he holds Ted Koppel and the Nightline program.
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Summary: I'm not done yet, but so far...
Review: My 6th grade teacher is reading Tuesdays with Morrie to my class. We are 3 quarters of the way done, and so far I LOVE it!! He only reads it on Tuesdays, and I can never wait for the next Tuesday to come. This book is a good book for anyone ages 12 and over. YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!!
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Summary: A crash course in how to live
Review: Love--delight, enthusiasm, kindness--is the only thing that matters. Everything else is just an obstacle or an enabler.Morrie Schwartz understood this. He knew what makes life full and what makes it empty. And to a great extent he lived out what he knew. His former student Mitch Albom, learning that his old professor was dying of ALS, recorded what Morrie said as he distilled into his last months the lessons of a lifetime devoted to love and understanding. This book, their joint gift to the future, is a rare treat, full of good humor despite its sad origin and its intense urgency. And it is a wake-up call.
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Summary: beautifull but too sentimental tuesdays...
Review: As seen the reviews of other readers it seems that this is a book you just love or despise it and most readers love it. Almost no other way. The book is written greatly for the era we are living at. College kids are overnightly becoming responsible and even before commencement is over, students are narrow minded what to do in their life. As much before and specially afterwards there is no time to be what you are trying to fell people and events around you, there is just a endless path in a tunnel of nothing else but building oneself better and better in job-competition. But this novel shows important part in coexistence with other human beings. There is much beyond in authors life of trying to get on the top of sport jurnalism jungle and avoiding real questions of life. But Morrie is a great anwser not just for Mitch Albom, the author, but for many ambitious people all over the world, who are seeking the friuts of life in the wrong place despite the misery included. Morrie is Mitch's coach, his college professor who is dying and they sit down and they talk every Tuesday as they used to 18 years ago in the college. Morrie is honest old man who is encountaring his own death with ALS disease, which will made his body collaps but his soul will stay intact. He's being honest, sad and he is showing all his feelings, and trying to told people simple truth, Death is part of life, not opposite to it. This book is a beautifull narration of life and realtionships that make every life living. But sometimes book gets too sentimental as trying to drive you on the verge of emotions without a casue, trying to shake you down just to be more provocative more memorable. So just sometimes it gets too unnatural as a bit pushing it over the edge. Wth bit of a distance for sure worth of reading.
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Summary: A must read!
Review: This book encouraged me to live better and to die better. To be a better daughter and a better mother. This book also taught me to loosen up a little and let go of some of my stereotypes about how life should be. I think this book will continue changing me for years to come. I really think it was a great read and the reason I don't give 5 stars to this book is that I think only books such as One Hundred Years of Solitude should get 5 stars.
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Summary: Well, here is another positive review...
Review: I know Mitch Albom as a straight talking sports writer from the Detroit Free Press and ESPN's Sports Reporters. Little did I suspect that the man can write a good story on any subject other than sports. I come from the school of thought that only the true sport nuts with blinders on can write sports. Albom certainly changed that viewpoint. This story as many have noted, cuts deep into the psyche of anyone of a certain age where they are at a point in life where they can afford to look back on a portion of their life and contemplate. Contemplate on the path not taken, on what might have been, on what was good in their lives, and on what they had but did not realize they had. Albom talks about the impact and wisdom of his old professor Morrie and the battles he waged against the ravages of disease. The key to this dialogue is the invariance of the lessons learned and the obviousness of it all. the truth to life is and will always stare us right in the eye, whether we choose to pay heed to these lessons or to ignore it is up to us. What Albom did is to pay heed, and he transformed these lessons into a dialogue that is not quite as involved as the Socratic dialogues, but the relative impacts are pretty similar. He is able to point out life's lessons that we are all aware of but have rarely observed. The wisdom of Morrie is not that he had these insights, but that he is able to put into words and synthesize the ideas to such a point that sinks in to our psyches in a conscious way. Morrie points out some of the obvious, Albom makes us appreciate the view and more importantly, internalize the lessons. The fact that the lesson was there all along is irrevelvant, waht is relevant is that the source of the synethesis, the voice of the book is about to fade away. There comes an urgency in the book as Morrie moves to his inevitable destiny. We feel alarmed, sad, and not a little guilty as we see Morrie moving past his last stages of life. We feel like we are missing out on some great wisdom that is inperceptable unless it is through the mind of Morrie. In actuality, wisdom that Morrie passes on is that the lessons have always been there, we just have to pay attention to the forest sometimes and let the trees go for awhile. A very good book.
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Summary: Overhyped Schlock
Review: Where to begin? As pointed out by other reviewers, this book is sappy, sentimental, trite, and thoroughly unoriginal. These points are made effectively by many of the "one-star" reviewers below. I will add the following: First, I am skeptical of many of the "truths" expressed in this book. Funny how the guy who is suggesting that "money isn't everything" is a tenured professor at a top school, living in Boston's wealthiest suburb, surrounded by private nurses and the latest medical equipment. For the rest of us, money is important. Maybe not the most important thing, but it's important. Personally, I take a lot of satisfaction from working fairly hard and making money to feed, clothe, and house my family. Sue me. Second, I suspect that Mitch Albom is a liar. I don't find it credible that he had the relationship Morrie that he claims to have had. And I don't think that Morrie is the saint that Albom makes him out to be. More credible is that this book was just a money-making and attention-grabbing scam on the part of Albom (and possibly Morrie). (Yes, I'm speculating here) Finally, since Albom has been thoroughly trashed in other reviews, I want to take a shot at Morrie. We've all known teachers, coaches, etc. who are very good at dispensing platitudes in a profound manner. Invariably, all the students think that teacher is "so cool" or whatever. And these self-promoting windbags are usually sleeping with the prettiest girls in the class who are so touched by this "wisdom." Is Morrie from this mold? I don't know, but from reading "tuesdays," I have my suspicions.
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Summary: I was so disappointed . . . .
Review: After hearing so many people call this a "must read," I was so disappointed. I found none of the great insights advertised or even simple truths. Rather, it was trite sentimentalism, page after page.
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