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Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: This book is extremely good, as it not only is well written but makes you think. It also ranks as one of the best books I have read this year.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Tuesday's with Morrie is a good book. It is about a college boy who becomes friend with one of his professeurs. At graduation the professor tells him to keep in touch, but over the years the boy finds new interest and does not have time for his old professor. Sixteen years later Morrie, the professor finds out that he ALS, a type of diesease where you lose muscle control and parts of your body become numb. One day a news reporter comes to Morrie and asks if he can interview his because Morrie has a great outlook on life and about dying. Morrie agrees to this interview and a couple of days later it is shown on television. Mitch, Morries previous college student, is now living about 500 miles away and is a sports writer who is busy all the time and making a lot of money. One night he is flipping through the television channels to see his old professor on the television. By watching the program he finds out that Morrie has come down with a disease that has no cure and he doesn't have much longer to live. He then calls his teacher and goes to his home to see him. While he is there his teacher asks how he has been and Mitch tells him that he is doing pretty good, but he is not completly happy. Morrie explains that happiness doesn't come by making the most money. It comes from being happy in your family. Mitch then realizes that he has neglected his wife for his job. Mitch asks if he can come back and see Morrie and they decide that every tuesday they will meet with each other because they are "tuesday people". As time passes Morrie gets less and less independent. He has to have nurses stay with him all the time and losses all felling in his feet. They continue to have "class" in Morries study and Morrie teaches him what should be most important in life. Morrie finds out that Mitch has a brother that has come down with cancer and has moved out of the country so that his family doesn't have to see him get sick. Morrie talks to Mitch about this but Mitch says there is nothing he can do his brother want talk with him. As weeks go by Morrie get worse and worse. One day Morrie's wife calls Mitch and tells him that Morrie isn't doing so well. Mitch goes to see Morrie and becomes upset that his teacher is about to die. A couple days later Morrie goes into a comma and never wakes up. They bury Morrie ashes on a Tuesday morning in a peaceful field where he wanted to be placed. At the end of the book Morrie gets in touch with his brother and they start talking again.
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Summary: a plateful of insight
Review: This book, the size of a medium-sized steak, fulfills the urge to overeat. Satisfaction blows in with quiet fury and makes you ponder the real meaning that life has to offer. Read it and enjoy!
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Summary: Read Morrie's book, then try Rousseau
Review: Life's Greatest Lesson seems to be that the person with the most publishing connections and gets to press first wins the prize.Morrie is a wise and wonderful man. His only mistake was to share his thoughts with Mitch. It continues to amaze me that Mitch has made so much money off Morrie while Morrie's own book has languished. Read Morrie's own book, then move on to the philosophers who influenced him.
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Summary: Yes, you've heard it before, but....
Review: There's nothing new here--the message is found elsewhere. But seldom is it presented as compellingly, in such an accessible form. You'll enjoy every minute you spend with Morrie.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: "Tuesdays With Morrie" is a fantastic book about a dying proffessor's last class that he ever taught. This touching story is about this college proffessor,Morrie Shwartz, and his final class with a former student,Mitch Album. Morrie is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, and he only has a short time left. In his final time on earth he teaches Mitch his greatest lesson of all. This book really brings tears to your eyes. It is a book that you can't put down. There is no other book like it. If you need a book that will touch your heart, that is also beautifully written this is the book for you. This is a strong, true story about the bond between a proffessor and a former student and his final days. I recommend everyone to read it.
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Summary: this is a great book
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is a very moving book. It is about a Morrie a college professor who is diagnosed with ALA. One of his old students Mich comes back to spend every Tuesday with Morrie in his last days. I had to read the book in a class for school and I thought the book was very good. I thought the book was very touching. Morrie seemed to have good insight into life and death. Morrie knew how important life was but also how to deal with death. Anyone could use the advice that Morrie gave Mitch. It is a lesson any person could use. I read the book fast it was one of thoes books you can put down. I know what it is like to watch some one you love die. This book really touched a cord in my heart. Mitch and Morrie had such a good relationship. Morrie makes you think more about life and death. He makes you realize that we do not know how much time we have left and we should life our lives to the fullest while we still can. He also makes you see how important having friends and family around you is. I believe that more people should read this book it can teach you some important lessons. I really enjoyed the book and I recommend it to others. I is sad and funny and touching all at the same time. I have recommended the book to many of my friends. I hope that when I go to college that I have a professor like Morrie. This book can open your eyes to life. I believe that more people should learn to live like Morrie did.
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Summary: Death Lite
Review: Morrie went on Nightline, not once, not twice, but three times to tell millions of viewers that dying wasn't all that bad. "How bad is it?" asks Ted Koppel on the last show. Morrie tries to lift his arm which promptly collapses back. It's like those old Roman gladiatorial games where the crowd watches someone die and enjoys the thrill. Not only is that fake emoition, it is also disgusting. But fake emotions abound in this book which was carefully crafted to touch the fuzzy-feelies of the popular mind. Morrie is so nice even when dying that he isn't real He is a fictional character cleaned up and polished to look sweeter and better than humans really do. But all that is neither here nor there compared to the main fake message which is: "Once you learn to die, you learn how to live." Wow! That has a kind of catchy affected poetic asymmetry to it. Let's think. Is it true? Does it make sense? In this otherwise fake book, there is one true thing. It's on page 116 where Morrie says, "And you know what? The strangest thing. I began to enjoy my dependency. Now I enjoy when they turn me over on my side and rub cream on my behind... I revel in it. I close my eyes and soak it up." Yup, that's the truth right there, Morrie's truth, and a none-too-pleasant truth at that. But it's just part of an even more macabre truth: Morrie liked dying. No change that. He reveled in the process, and delighted in the TV celebrity he got from it. Too bad he never got to see his literary success too. It turns out dying has a terrible price attached to it. It puts you out of touch and is so, so permanent.
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Summary: For everything there is a time...
Review: This book was very highly recommended by an older man who has gone through several difficult years. I am a much younger guy, and did not find this book as important as he did. Yes, the musings of a man that is slowly dying should be understood. Morie (the dying man) mentions to the young man that if the young men of the world could see from Morie's point of view, the world would move much slower, the focus would not be on progress in the world, but would focus on relationships. To everything there is a time... a seventy year old dying man sees the world one way, and it is good for young men to think about those things every once in a while. However, most young men have responsiblities, and a drive to suceed. These should not be overshadowed by a fear of regret in later life. Maybe it is because I feel that I have a balanced life. Maybe it is because I am in my thirties, and more worried about the house payment than the regrets I might feel at seventy, but this book was a bit of a downer for me. I may reread this book in 30 or 40 years, maybe it will mean more to me.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: I thought this book was a great choice. Never a slow moment in it. I love the reality in it as well. With the situation of death is always around, I think that everyone can relate to the story in some way. I recommend this book to everyone.
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