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Summary: A book that will make you think about your life.
Review: I read this book after hearing so many good things about it and the TV movie based on it. It's a very quick read - I finished it in two days, which is unheard of for me! The book is basically about Morrie Schwartz, a history professor at Brandeis University, who has been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and is dying. A former student, Mitch Albom, who had become a fairly well known sports writer, heard about his teacher from an interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline and decided to pay a visit. This visit soon turned into regular meetings - on Tuesdays - since at the time there was a strike at Albom's newspaper. Albom plots Morrie's declining health, which is quite depressing, but at the same time imparts Morrie's wisdom. One definitely can get a sense of what the important things in life are from someone who has little left, but Morrie is particularly eloquent and seems to carry an upbeat dignity to the end. Sometimes it takes the wisdom of a dying man to jog us enough to realize that human relationships and health are more important than all the gadgets, modern conveniences, pressures to get ahead professionally and monetarily combined. This is just the main point that Morrie starts "teaching" Albom and getting through to someone who, like many of us from time to time, have gotten obsessed with the real trivialities of life. The only complaint I have about this book is that it wasn't longer. I wanted to take more time and savor the wisdom and sweetness of this old man, but, like his illness's swiftness, reading the book seemed to go by all too quickly.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: This was a great inspirational book. The best part of this book was the character, Morrie. You can't help but love him from the start. He's such an energetic, old man with so much wisdom that you feel like you've known him your whole life. This book makes you laugh and cry. Morrie opens your eyes to life, death, love, and family. He gives you humorous bits of wisdom and little life lessons that help you see death in a different light.This book is about Morrie and his old college student, Mitch. Mitch loses touch with Morrie after college and forgets the important things in life. After Morrie catches ALS (a terminal illness), he guests on Nightline. Mitch happens to see the show and gets in touch with his old professor. They start visiting every Tuesday and Morrie shares with Mitch his life lessons and words of wisdom before he dies of the ALS.
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Summary: Life's Greatest Lessons In a Nutshell
Review: Life's Greatest Lessons In a Nutshell "The last class of Morrie's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves." Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, is a compelling story, about an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lessons. One of the best qualities of this book is the characters. Mitch Albom describes himself as a man that has grown up too fast, and is basically a workaholic. But Morrie wanted to change that. Morrie helped mold Mitch into the man that he is today. A man that treasures life for all that it is worth. Mitch said of himself that before he reconnected with Morrie that "he buried himself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, he believed he could control things, he could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before he got sick and died." Another great quality of Tuesdays with Morrie is the humor. At appearance this does not look like a funny book. But there were moments I found myself laughing out loud at little things that Morrie said or did. Tuesdays with Morrie was very inspiring. It made me want to spend more time with my elders and have the "life's greatest lessons" from their points of view. It gave me a better understanding of life. It made me want to go out in the world and be a better person. The one thing that wasn't terrific about the book is its predictability. There were no big surprises in the book, but I guess that was kind of necessary and that it helped make the story. Tuesdays with Morrie, is truthfully one of the best books that I've ever read. It was an inspiring story that made you feel complete, just by reading it. "Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back."
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Summary: Touching
Review: Never in my life have I read such an astounding book. It really touched me. I could tell by the first page I read that it was going to be a good one. It really made me think about my life and what I could do to make it better. I will never forget this book and the impact it caused on my life.
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Summary: Food For Thought
Review: This book was not what I expected. It really moved me. In ways I didn't expect. It reveals compassion, change, acceptance and most important, the need to feel. I would recommend this book to anyone who could use a little nudge when it comes to reality and what is really important. Aside from the core issue, dying, this is about living. It was well written, easy to follow and held my attention for a few nights. This is not just about losing and finding again. It is about life.
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Summary: Inspired and Motivated
Review: Remember that old song by Bette Midler: "Did you ever know that you're my hero, And everything I would like to be? I can fly higher than an eagle, For you are the wind beneath my wings." Mitch Albom is saying this about his mentor and teacher Morrie Schwartz. Morrie has had a life of joy and sadness mingling together. He gives Mitch the final lesson we all need to learn: how to live our lives. One thing about human beings is that it is difficult to accept our mortality. The calm with which Morrie accepts it should motivate us to live every day of our lives as if it is our last - to learn the lessons of love, the lessons of caring, the lessons of living a life of happiness that so many of us are missing. This book is incredible - a medicine for the soul, an inspiration for our day-to-day lives. This book has changed me, and I'm sure it will change your perspective on life as well.
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie was based on Morrie Schwartz struggle to survive. Mitch Album, a former student of Morrie's at Brandeis University, tells about the last couple months of Morrie's life. In the summer of 1994 Morrie was given his death sentence. Morrie knew long before this day that something was seriously wrong. It wasn't until now that he found out he had Lou Gehrig's disease.After Mitch graduated Brandeis University he lost touch with Morrie until 15 years later. Mitch was flipping channels when he saw Morrie talking about his disease on Dateline. Mitch watched this episode and a week later called up Morrie. Morrie wanted Mitch to come and see him so Mitch flew from Detroit to Boston just for Morrie. They caught up on old times and it became a ritual that Mitch would fly to Boston every Tuesday to visit Morrie. The two of them would talk all day long and then Mitch would leave until the next Tuesday. Mitch continued to visit every Tuesday for the next few months and was there for Morrie as he suffered through his long and painful death. This was a very touching and meaningful story of a mans struggle to live and how to say good-bye.
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Summary: Tuesday's with Morrie
Review: This book brought out my otherwise hidden emotions. I cried several times throughtout the course of reading it. It was a story about a student and his number one teacher. His teacher (Morrie) was dying from ALS and he was too caught up in work to care until the student(Mitch) lost his job due to a strike. They met everyday to talk about marriage, the meaning of life, and so on. This book made start to think about my family and how important they are to me. Most of the things Morrie said were heartwarming and confident. I felt that I knew Morrie and he considered myself as a friend, but we'd never met. The book completely comes alive in my eyes. I was enthused and entertained through the whole read. Mitch Albom, the author was trying to show that it is very important to stay close in touch with friends and family because you'll never know when you'll have to say goodbye. Morrie was not scared of death. Instead of being scared of death he faced it and looked at himself as being the lucky one. He had about a year to say goodbye to everyone that was important to him. The best thing about this book is that Morrie has all of the answers to every question that I have wondered about, and it's comforting. I recommend this book to anyone that likes to stay interested in what they read.
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Summary: This Tuesday we talk about Morrie
Review: By Emily Woolf As I picked up "Tuesday's With Morrie," I was doubtful I would finish the book with a positive attitude toward anything written by Mitch Album. The cover looked dull and boring so i went into the book with a bad feeling. Instead, left me considering my own life, and contemplating the lessons given by Morrie. Tuesday's with Morrie was based around a heavy subject, and written as an account of the events. Death is the main subject of the book, but it isn't what the book is about. It is about the meaning of life and the importance of love, compassion, and understanding. As Morrie continuously says throughout the book, "Love each other or die." Morrie's philosophy in life was to reach an understanding with himself and the world. To provide love and comfort for anyone who would take it. He continues to learn more and more about what life really is about as he becomes closer to his final day. The advice Morrie gives us, the reader, becomes more and more admirable as his days grow shorter. This book focuses on a student of Morrie's (Morrie was a college professor), Mitch. Over the years, after Mitch has graduated and become a sports writer, a Nightline special is aired on tv. By chance Mitch is flipping through the channels and catches the few words, "Who is Morrie Shwartz?..." That was all it took after sixteen long years, for Mitch to go back to Morrie. The reader acquires there life lessons through the conversations Mitch and Morrie have every Tuesday. They touch every subject any other person would have trouble talking about without any sense of embarrassment. Subjects that confuse people their whole lives such as death, love, money, the culture we live in, and forgiveness. Morrie's advice comes in different forms such as quotes from authors, poets, and personal experiences. As I was reading I came upon a piece of Morrie's advice that will stay in my head for a long time, "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live." It's as if our life long goal is summed up in one sentence. If we could accomplish this, I think everyone would have a more peaceful life and appreciate everything so much more. Morrie supplies everyone that has spoken to him, listened to him, read his thoughts through articles, books, or seen him on tv, with inspiration to achieve their highest goals. Isn't that what everyone wants? Someone to tell them that 'they can do it!'?
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Summary: Excellent Resource on Grief
Review: This book shares how the dying experience creates a level of compassion uniting the heart and soul in an eternal relationship that will never die. Morrie did engage his friend Mitch in his dying that opened his heart to live life fully. In Morrie's dying experience, he taught his student one of life's greatest lesson. Mitch learned to die while he is alive. Mitch opened his heart and soul into the realm of spirit. He opened into insight and learned to see through his eyes instead of with them. Mitch pierced through the veil of appearances and saw the face of God. I also recommend: What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living by Samuel Oliver
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