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Summary: TUESDAY
Review: AS A FUTURE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL I THINK THAT THE BOOK "TUESDAY WITH MORRIE" WAS AN EXCELLENT BOOK. IT HAD A LOT OF SAD PARTS THAT MAKE A PERSON MORE INTERESTED IN THE BOOK. I FEEL THAT A PERSON THAT TAKES TIME OUT HIS DAY TO SPEND WITH A FRIEND IS REALLY EXTRAORDINARY. THAT'S WHY I GAVE THIS BOOK TWO STARS. AS A STUDENT OF MORRIE'S MITCH GREW CLOSER AND CLOSER TO MORRIE ONCE HE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALS, THAT SOON HE WOULD DIE. EVERY CHANCE MITCH HAD TO SPEND TIME HE DID AND THAT SHOWS THAT HE CARED A LOT FOR MORRIE. THIS BOOK WAS REALLY GOOD AND DEDICATE IT TO ANYONE GOING INTO THE MEDICAL FIELD.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: I give the book Tuesdays With Morrie four stars. It was a very moving and compationate story. Morrie and Mitch's converstaions were very interesting. I loved Morrie's attitude. He was never upset or depressed about his condition. He just lived live to the fullest and did not waste one minute. he was also a very smart man. He had many theories that people shoudl live by to have a better life. I am interested in going into the medical field. As a medical professional, you have to deal with dying patients and their families every day. That is something I am going to have to get used to doing. The book Tuesdays With Morrie showed me how it is going to be. I believe there will be times where I might get emotionally attached, which is not good. This book opened my eyes to death. Everyone should read this book, especially if you are intersted in going into the medical field.
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Summary: Spirituality: The Missing Link in Education
Review: Here at Oglala Lakota College, our teachers to be embed the spiritual understanding of our interconnectedness with all life. This book reminds us that other brave teachers are doing the same.
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Summary: A wise man once told me the Meaning of Life.................
Review: This book moved me in a way that no other book has. I first saw the made-for-TV movie. I cried. I sat there and realized how much sense this man was making. He talks about what to worrie about and what to just brush away. The context of what he describes as the end was purly heartfelt. It is a best seller in every aspect of the word. I may be only 13 years old, but I know when something is amazing when I see it. Or in this case read it. I recomend it to anyone who is searching for something out of life. Like I said, I may be 13, but I know that this book is wonderful and very refreshing.
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Summary: Moving book
Review: This is the most moving book I have ever read. I recommend this book to everyone. You will never read something that will impact your life so much. I can not even begin to tell you how much it has made me question everything and the meaning of life. It really helps you think and gives great advice in the book that everyone could use. Please just take some time and read it. It is not a long book but has a long meaning. Thanks.
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Summary: A lesson on life...
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. It was at some points hard to put down (and Im not a lover of reading). I was attending mass one Sunday and my priest recommended this book, and I also recommend it to you. This was a heart warming book about a man who faught the disease ALS. I also had prior experience with ALS, because this was the disease my Granpa died from. If you have no experience with ALS, it will feel as if you did after reading this book. This was a short book which was great, but at some points it seemed like they were dragging out some topics. In this book there were many important life topics that I feel all people should take the time to think about. I am very happy that Ms. Ward, the best teacher ever, gave me this assignment (otherwise I wouldn't have read it). Please come back! We all miss you very much.
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Summary: Platitudes from Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is the tale of a "dying man talking to a living man, telling him what he should know." It's a compendium of one man's life's lessons, dispensed by the sainted Morrie in his effort to "walk that final bridge between life and death and narrate the trip." My question is this--is Morrie's advice of any real value? Are his utterances practicable to the point that Mr. Albom has the right to pass them off as gospel? Is Morrie's message, just because it's right for him, necessarily right for the rest of mankind? If not, then it's presumptuous and pushy for Morrie's disciple to attempt to foist ideas about how to live on the rest of us. In America, self-improvement instruction has long been the publisher's cash cow. It's notoriously profitable. People want to be told how to live. Consequently, there's always someone like Mitch around to provide a map of the road to happiness, to show us the ropes of life, to provide the keys to fulfillment and self-actualization. "Tuesdays With Morrie" is one more bag of balm in a smarmy genre that won't go away. What makes Morrie a little different is that the central character lives and breathes, and, to make matters more heart-rending, we're permitted to accompany him on his journey to the Valley of Death. It's the perfect setup. Dying man's words reek of authenticity; author uses them to bathe the reader in his own shame. The result? Catharsis! Albom is saying, look, here's a guy who's dying. Instead of crying in his beer and fearfully living out his last days in self-pity, he's willing to give everything to teach you barbarians the real lessons of life. And what are you doing? Living your lives in the same shallow, unfocused, materialistic way you always have. It's shameful. C'mon, get with the program. Listen to Morrie. Live as if today were your last. Do unto others. Can't buy me love. Stop and smell the roses. Love one another. Make a commitment. All you need is love. Of course these are good lessons, and of course they can provide meaning and purpose in our lives, but the book itself (like most self-help books) is something of a sham. It's essentially a re-packaging of things we already know or things we've heard over and over, from every do-gooder from Roy Rogers to Mr. Rogers. And if we don't believe them now we're not going to learn them just because a dying man in a twenty dollar book whispers them to us through a wet hankie, no matter how sincerely they're uttered. If we one day choose to apply these lessons, we will have to learn them first--through hard knocks, personal discovery and, as Morrie did, through personal suffering--not via the transparent artifices of a maudlin, poorly written best seller. One can admire the selfless character of Morrie Schwartz. He's humane. He sets a good example. He fights the good fight and does his best under trying circumstances. He appears to care more for others than he does for himself. And I have no quarrel with the bromides his devoted apprentice is selling. Most likely the world would be a better place if we all could find it in our hearts to live by Morrie's code. And perhaps we'd all be happier. But it is Albom's presumption that, like him, we all need gather 'round to bask in the wisdom of Morrie the Master that raises my hair. May I please live my life myself? May I find life's meaning for myself? May I learn to feel the joy and pain of living on my own, instead of yielding up the pleasure of making life's discoveries to the Mitch and Morrie machine? Truly, if Morrie's message and memory meant so much to Mr. Albom, he would have marketed his dead teacher's platitudes the way the Gideons market Bibles: voluminously, ubiquitously, and for FREE!
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Summary: Life's (real) Greatest Lesson
Review: The Lesson: P.T. Barnum said it a century ago "There's A Fool Born Every Minute". This lesson is also the answer to one of Life's Greatest Questions: Why is this silly book such a huge bestseller? The Answer: It is cheap,it is short and it is written on a third grade level. It therefore involves very little committment of time, money or thought. It allows the average moron to proudly state to others that he just got done reading a N.Y. Times Bestseller. Of course it [is inexpensive] and took 2 hours to read but what the hell. Also this same person will "love this wonderful book" because they have very little else in their literary experience to compare it to.
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Summary: Forever A Classic
Review: Before renewing his relationship with his favorite college professor, Mitch Albom was known as one of America's best sportswriters. "Fab Five" -- his book about the University of Michigan basketball team that included Chris Weber and Jalen Rose, is the second-best book about college basketball ever written, second only to John Feinstein's "Season on the Brink." Albom's local Detroit radio show, and his columns in the pages of the Detroit Free Press (available online at the paper's website) are among the best in the country. Yet, it is this remarkable love story between a busy, frenetic professional (we are all Mitch Albom, to one degree or another) and a dying philosopher (we will all end up like Morrie, to one degree or another) that reveals Albom to be more than just a yuppie sports and radio guy, but a master of the English language, who can make poetry out of prose, and remind us about what life is truly all about. No book in recent memory has been more deserving of its success. It is a very short book, so there is no excuse for anyone to pass it by.
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Summary: the simple truths in life
Review: I have no idea what the previous reviewer was looking for. The great truths in life have always been the simple things, from Christ to Buddah, from Ghandi to the Dali Lama. It's really not that complicated. Life tends to get in the way of our pursuit of happiness and we forget the important things in life. Morrie's interest in Buddism, existential pscyology, and a touch of Zen w/o the Koans, provides inspiration and insight into life. Irv Yalom and other existentalists have echoed the idea that we are the only animal that appears to know we are going to die. Knowledge of death is a gift, not a curse. It makes life more precious, more transitory, because each moment may be our last. Thank you for an evening spent with this man.
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