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Summary: This is the book that got me interested in non-fiction.
Review: I just picked this book up from a display and started to read and I was totally hooked. To read these amazing experiences written so honestly and plainly by a MAN (I was surprised at the depth of emotion in this book - guess I have a few things to learn)really held my attention. This book is very sincere and direct. Mitch Albom does a fantastic job of passing on to the reader the thoughts, values, lessons, attitudes, love and friendship that he recieved from Morrie! What a wonderful gift, I'm so glad I read it! This book does have moments of sorrow, but this is NOT a sad, sappy, depressing account of a dying man. After reading this my attitude about death, illness, and even everyday life was all changed for the better.
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Summary: Wonderful Morrie, but horrible book
Review: The words in this book do not do justice to the strength of heart and mind that Morrie Schwartz achieved in his last days of overcoming the mental and physical pain and anguish of his degenerative illness. That awesome strength of will shines through with Morrie as an enduring example of how one man learned how to maintain a meaningful and interactive life despite his increasingly debilitating and humiliating illness. Unfortunately, to learn of this wonderful man you have to plow through the directionless idiocy and simple minded truths and wisdom that the author drew from his Tuesday meetings with Morrie. Instead of focusing on Morrie, you have to put up with, as another reviewer so aptly put it, the author's baby boomer guilt about his own life and such meaningless dribble as what food he brought Morrie to the weekly meetings. This dribble is painfully revealing about the author's own self-absorbed shortcomings. For example, it takes him weeks to discover that Morrie can no longer eat this food, which he brings as his pitiful contribution to his meetings with Morrie and his family. Morrie obviously wanted him, not his food, yet the author takes weeks to figure this out! As to the truths and wisdom of the book, surely many of us subscribe to one of the many great religions of the world that has taught many of these same truths and wisdom for hundreds, if not thousands, of years --- with far greater cohesiveness of thought and poetry of language.
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Summary: Tuesday with Morrie : Good ?
Review: I enjoy reading "Tuesday with Morrie". It is a quick and inspirational reading. The life - lesson behind the thought of one professor who is soing to die with an uncurable disease is very interesing. Mitch Albom split the book into sub-topics like Love, marriage, death etc... This made it is easy to grap and digest. However, I might expect too high. It's not the life-changing. It's just another good book that talk about the topic that worth reading. From what my friends told me and read other comments, I think it should have been better. But I still recommend people to read this book. Read and feel it by yourself.
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Summary: Read it and you will never ever forget Morrie
Review: This book merites 7 stars! A very, very sick man full of wisdom and who's aim of suffering seemed to be to make all of us more aware of the power and the need of love. You can feel it: it's the true story of a real "life-teacher".
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Summary: Hey, am I missing something here??
Review: I read this book at breakfast this morning and felt like I've been robbed. What psychobabble! Shame on Mitch Albom. Can't believe this book got so many good reviews. Are people who read this book and loved it lacking in these simple insights about life and death? Haven't they ever read anything like this before? Most women's magazines and Readers' Digest have articles or snippets about people like Morrie confronting death and offering newly found wisdom. Mr. Albom should get back to covering sports.
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Summary: Tuesday's with Morrie...Good notes about the end
Review: I didn't figure that "Tuesday's with Morrie" was going to be another text manual on how to deal with death and the dieing. In fact, it was pretty much what I expected. A decent account of how human relationships and feelings can usher us into the next phase of life. Morrie was a courageous person who obviously spent much of his life caring for and interacting with a great many people. I think John Lennon put it best when he said... "It's not about the love you take but the love you make..." Morrie understood this to the last breath. As far as Albom, I suppose he is just another babby boomer trying to get it right. Wonder what he's doing with all the money he made off of this book?
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Summary: Eat Your Heart Out Jack Kevorkian
Review: "Tuesdays With Morrie" has hovered high on the bestseller's list since shortly after the Ice Age so current reviews are probably futile exercises, but just in case I'm not the last person on earth to read it, I'll offer my two cents worth. On first thought the story of weekly visits to a gentleman dying of a degenerative disease does not sound like a terribly uplifting plot. Yet, this short work recounting the final months of Morrie Schwartz is an exhilarating tribute to the sanctity of life. The euphemism "dying with dignity" has become a modern day substitute for "let's pull Grandma's plug before she uses up all our inheritance." Morrie, in his losing battle to the ravishing illness named for Lou Gehrig, received the loving care, warmth, and encouragement of family, friends, and colleagues right up to the natural end. This respectful treatment may have violated every tenant of the specious bromide, but it afforded him a true death with dignity. Furthermore, Mr. Schwartz' homebound last chapter allowed him to "live with dignity." While being the recipient of tender support and dedication, he was able to impart courage and wisdom and be a beacon of inspiration to all who interacted with him. It's hard for a book that's achieved such a stellar reputation to live up to its expectations, but Mitch Albom's posthumous love letter to his favorite professor does not disappoint. Hopefully, it may even provide readers the impetus to contact that person who is long overdue for a call or a letter.
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Summary: Life's Lessons, Captured
Review: If we're lucky, we get to meet one person in our life who has the ability - both through example and expression - to get it through our thick skulls that life is, indeed, a gift. Mitch Albom, a renowned sports writer, is blessed to find this person in Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from twenty years ago. When his former mentor is interviewed by Ted Koppel on Nightline, Mr. Albom learns that Morrie is dying from Lou Gehrig's Disease. His first visit blooms into a regular Tuesday appointment, hence "Tuesdays with Morrie." Mr. Albom chronicles the life lesson taught during each visit. Those lessons cover subjects ranging from marriage, to forgiveness, to the inevitability of death. Professor Morrie Schwartz knew how to live, and he died with grace and dignity doing what he did best, teaching the most important lessons of all. Thankfully, they were recorded and passed on by a skilled and caring journalist. Mr. Albom has done his mentor proud.
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Summary: The Soap Opera Version
Review: I'm really sorry -- I wanted to like this book. (In fact, I wanted to write this book.) Having discussed the need for such a book with a friend, who told me that I should read Tuesdays with MOrrie, I picked up a copy. I couldn't believe how awful, trite, cliched this book was. If you're looking for lessons that you can apply to your life forget it -- it is full of inconsistencies and contradictions. If you're looking for good writing, it is not here. I can't really understand the popularity of this drivel. Correction: actually I can -- the same people who bought Bridges of Madison County probably made this popular.(Of course there is the marketing machine of the publishers and Ted Koppel's interviews with Morrie.) Don't get me wrong -- Morrie Schwartz sounds like an intelligent person and I have heartfelt sympathy for him. It's Alborn's cloying, witless style and his uncanny ability to highlight the most uninteresting part of his interaction with Morrie that is the downfall of this book. So we get pages and pages of descriptions of Morrie's declining physical state. Then more pages of Alborn's baby-boomer guilt about his own ambition. And a few unenlightening "words of wisdom" (really trivial stuff that if you're even vaguely a seeker-type should have figured out by the time you are 30). Nothing is tied together into a united whole -- for instance, Mitch Alborn points out that MOrrie hates lawyers. Interesting -- but what to make of it? Does he know anything about law, about the role that lawyers play in U.S. society? Does he want to eliminate the checks offered even by the plaintiff lawyers who he presumably hates? No word on that. Other advice ranges from letting go, forgiving yourself, cultivating lasting relationships. What are we to make of this? Naturally, it can be applied to the most self-serving behavior as well as the most selfless. This book is not a prescription for saving the world -- an unfair standard, I will admit, to judge it by. But it is also not a prescription for making even minor tweaks in your spiritual life -- something it really should have delivered. Stay away from this drivel and pick up a book on Buddhism or an intellectually rigorous book on philosophy.
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Summary: I didn't find this book to be that profound.....
Review: Yes, I am one of the few people who didn't find this book to be the life-changing miracle that many others did. I have read a book that tells many of the exact same lessons, has sold millions of more copies, and has been published and republished for hundreds of years. It's called The Bible. If you haven't read it, I highly suggest it.
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