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Summary: not that profound
Review: This book did not meet my high expectations. I read many reviews on this site where people had seemed to have some kind of spriritual experience or epiphany while reading this book. I ordered it from Amazon expecting a deeply enlightening read. To my disappointment, I found that the themes it addresses are very basic. They aren't quantum physics or anything. For example, I consider it a matter of common sense that relationships are more important than possessions..this shouldn't be a deathbed realization for most of us...but the author acted like it was the most arcane and wise thing he'd ever heard....Morrie's "aphorisms" were fairly lightweight,basic observations on life that most people should already know and appreciate. Also, I didn't like the sweet, sappy, emotionally manipulative tone of the book. There were parts where I thought, "OK, I'm supposed to cry here." I thought maybe I was being too harsh, so I asked my wife to read it. She gets choked up over reading hallmark cards in the mall so I thought she would be more sympathetic. BUT: she didn't even finish the book because it was too sappy even for her. Now that's sappy. That's what motivated me to write this review.
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Summary: A Class Worth Retaking
Review: Tuesdays With Morrie is a deeply moving story about everlasting friendship, enlightenment, and the pleasures of life. Mitch Albom shares his experiences and lessons he endured with his dear friend and mentor, Morrie Schwartz. After a number of sociology courses and weekly meetings at Brandeis University, their student-teacher relationship evolved into one with a mutual sense of admiration for one another. Morrie was able to give Mitch a greater understanding of the world and human interaction. Twenty years later, although Mitch was a successful sports writer, dissatisfactions with his life revealed that perhaps he had forgotten everything he had learned. It wasn't until a chance viewing of Morrie on Nightline that the two were able to rekindle their friendship. Although Morrie Schwarz was now seventy eight years old and dying of ASL (Lou Gehrig's disease), he appeared to be happy, having lived a rich life. Meeting on Tuesdays once again, they laughed, chatted, and reminisced. Mitch was given another opportunity to enhance his life with fourteen final lessons from Morrie. Perhaps one of Morrie's greatest lessons was that "death ends a life, not a relationship (pg. 174)." Reawakening Mitch to the aspects of life that matter most, Morrie's heartfelt insight touched me as well. Mitch's final lessons with Morrie are a lesson for all. An essential guide for understanding the world's complexities and living life to it's fullest, there is much to be learned. I picked it up on a Sunday morning and read it in one sitting, savoring every last word of Morrie's wisdom. I would give Mitch an A for this indispensable read and praise Morrie for his exceptional teachings.
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Summary: SImply written, immense themes
Review: This is a wonderful book about learning life's lessons. It is written simply to bring home the themes of the novel. It's a wonderful book to read and a very important one.
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Summary: A Problem Solver
Review: There are many people who have come up to me and said "This book is terrible. There are many such "sob stories" and there are many that don't involve older men whose time has come." In order to really understand this book, you can't dig too deeply. Think about what Morrie says, think about what he means. Think about how you would feel in his situation. I have a friend who was suicidal. She read this book and understood what problems are, and how we, as human beings, deal with them. This book is incredible at fixing our perspective on life. You have to live life to the fullest.
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Summary: Lessons of life and death very well written
Review: Picked this book up in my death and dying phase of 1998/1999. My father-in-law is afflicted with Morrie Schwartz' same illness - the syndrome that killed Lou Gherig - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. This is a fantastic telling of months-long interviews Mitch Albom conducted with his quondam professor, now struggling with and dying of ALS. Lessons of life and death very well written. I think I read all 192 pages in two sittings, then passed it on to my mother who did the same.
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Summary: touched by dying
Review: I read this book and was touched. It was like I was learning lessons in living, from a man who was dying. Teaching me not te be so materialistic. In the end, friends and love is all that counts!
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Summary: Life After Death
Review: Through his death, an old profesor from Brandeis University left behind a journey towards the way life should be led in order to prepare for death. The true story of Morrie Schwartz is told in the heart touching book Tuesdays with Morrie by his own student and friend Mitch Albom. In Morrie's last months, he and Mitch met to discuss the topic of life and Mitch compiled their meetings together to become this book. After reading this great story, readers will feel like going out and fixing the things in their life that may leave them unsatisfied if they die tomorrow. Because the book contained actual conversations and was written by a close friend of Morrie's, readers actually will feel as if thay have a relationship with him. Morrie was a great man who got this horrible disease and it was no secret that he was going to die, but he never felt sorry for himself, but rather lucky he was left with the time he had. Morrie is an inspirational character who I will continue to think about for a great period of time. Although the ending of the story is no surprise, after reading the good-byes between Mitch and Morrie, it would take a heart less person to have dry eyes. I don't suggest reading this book without a tissue box nearby. Morrie believed an individual life does not just end because of a death, but that through love, the person can live on. Through Mitch's love, Morrie will never be forgotten and will live on in the hearts of the readers of this moving story.
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Summary: A Lesson About Life
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, is a book that teaches the lesson of life through sad dying eyes with a warm heart. SUffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, Professor Morrie Schwartz gets visited by a former student named Mitch Albom, the author of the book. Albom keeps revisitng Morrie every Tuesday and learns about life, forgiveness, marriage, and death. I thought this book was great and really taught me a lesson about life. People might not want to admit it, but whoever has read this book probably felt like it related to them or touched them in some way. Through Morrie the reader understand and realize what is really important and valuable in life. Many people in today's society are caught in work, school, and money. After reading this book one will realize that what is truly important in life is life itself, health, and family. Morrie himself is a dichotomy both physically and mentally. WHen I say he is a dichotomy, I mean that he himself is dying yet he shares his knowledge of life with so many people, specifically Mitch Albom. Morrie's words and lectures can be compared to an heirloom, it just keeps getting passed on forever, form Mitch Albom to us, the readers. The one part of Morrie that I liked the best was his attitude that even though he only has about ay ear to live he sitll kept a positive apperances in his lectures. In a way he gave me and Mitch ALbom a new life, a life that we look at through a different perspective, a life where we can see what is really valuable and important.
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Summary: The True Test of Endurance
Review: As a little kid it was the end of the world to lose a favorite toy, but as time went by and maturity kicked in, it was learned that there was much more to life than such trivial things. More than losing a toy, the loss of a loved one is something that is remembered rather than a petty toy. Tuesdays with Morrie is an excellent book that one can easily relate to if they have experienced any kind of life-altering loss in their life. Teaching insightful lessons chapter after chapter, it is not just another sob story intended for readers to feel sympathy or pity, but someone's personal experience written for readers in need of some inspiration in their life. As the narrator, Mitch, goes through life, it is apparent on how he is changed by reuniting with Morrie, his old college professor who now has Lou Gherig's Disease. The compassion that is built for Morrie makes it devastating when it is time to say good-bye to him. Through all the pains and struggles that Morrie endured, the most important lesson learned is to never give up, let it be on yourself or other people. This book is recommended for those who have experienced a lot in their life. People who have not experienced much in life may not like this book because they might not be able to relate to the situations.
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Summary: Tuesday's with Morrie
Review: I've read many a book in my life, but this was the first one I felt.
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