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Summary: Learn how to live
Review: Many people go through life simply surviving. Morrie teaches that life is to be treasured and thrived. By learning how to die, he shows everyone else how to live a deep, fulfilling, rich, meaningful life. I'm a student in High School and I've already learned the conditioning of society to put people on their monotonous treadmill of life. With help from Morrie, I'm continually learning how to love every second of life. You can't put a price on living a fulfilling life. It's priceless yet it's given to you through Morrie's experience with learning how to die. Take his experience and learn how to live. It's the best book you'll ever read.
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Summary: Very inspirational!
Review: I loved this book! It really made me think about what was important in my life and about how many of life's lessons I've learned and have yet to learn. I enjoyed this book so much, I have purchased the audio cassettes for my father who is 50 years old living in a nursing home, struggling to overcome the effects of a severe head injury. I hope it is as inspiring to him and other resident of the nursing home as it was to me.
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Summary: Sarah and Christina Sum It Up
Review: I think the reviews by Sarah and Christina nicely encapsulate my thoughts on this book. Why do I continue to let the New York Times bestseller list to manipulate me? The only positive thing I have to say about this ( )is that I was able to give it to my approaching 70 year old parents, who enjoyed it. I was recently talking to a fellow who taught High School Senior English and, as a literature major in collge and ABD in Comparative Literature before jumping ship to make money in the oh so boring corporate world where people don't read books and are proud of it, continuing to be avidly interested in education and what the kids are reading, asked him what his class was reading now. It was Tuesdays with Morrie. Now we know why Johnnie can't read and why Jane has no critical thinking skills. I wonder if any of the students picked up on the greed element (Albom's) and also wonder why I can't throw together some( ) like this and soar to the top of the bestseller list. I don't think the Goddess of Contemporary Literature, Joan Didion, would approve and if I could meet anyone in the world, it would be her. Shame on Mitch Albom and his publisher. For anyone interested, I've since read Georgiana, Stiffed, The Hours, and Hitler's Pope and would give them all 5 stars. My last remaining question is why Amazon doesn't offer the option of rating it no star? And one last thought; I work for a major consulting firm and interview candidates for positions regularly. The first questions I always ask are "what was the last book you read" and "what are you reading now"? If I don't like the answer to that, I check the "no hire" box and cite poor communications skills as the basis for my decision. If Tuesdays with Morrie were so much even mentioned, that box would be checked in an nanosecond and I'm sure I'd have to excuse myself and pass the interviewee along. I hope this offers some guidance to upcoming graduates currently in the interviewing process or anyone else for that matter. That single answer would tell me more than anything else I could possibly ask.
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Summary: all about Mitch...
Review: This book is more about Mitch's obsession with his annual income then it is Morrie.
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Summary: Tuesday's With Morrie
Review: This was a fast read. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own busy lives that we forget some of life's greatest lessons. This book helped bring me back down to earth and realize what is most important in my life. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: It's OK to Feel
Review: This is a great book for anyone, but I found it especially appealing for me as a man. Society dictates and brainwashes men to believe that feelings are "weak"; particularly sadness or grief. To be a "strong" man, you can't ever cry or shed a single tear...so society would have us men believe.The fact of the matter is, though, that society is dead wrong. It's the *weak* man that never cries and the strong man who is fully in touch with his emotions - and fully able to express them. And that's what this book deals with...the necessity for expression of feelings in order to fully experience life. Don't be misled by the book's size. It may be short, but that's part of the book's beauty. I was amazed at the simplicity of this book - bite-sized chapters make for a very easy read, but each one is full of important life lessons. Morrie, the book's subject and a retired college professor, speaks frankly and tenderly to Mitch, an ex-student of his. And over the course of Morrie's last 14 weeks on Earth, he brings Mitch back from the frantic, frenzied mindset of today's materialistic society. He teaches Mitch to feel again...that it's OK to be mad, it's OK to be sad, it's OK to cry. Morrie was a profoundly loving man who faced his certain death with a triumphant optimism. He loved fully, and thank God he left us with this book of wisdom. Mitch Alborn has truly painted an amazing portrait of courage, hope, and inspiration.
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Summary: A Torture to Read
Review: This book must have been one of the most torturous, boring, touchy-feely-make-you-want-to-puke books I have ever read. I would not recomend it to anyone. I would actually go out of my way to tell people NOT to read this book (except maybe to a flower child who likes all this overly affectionate BS). It is WAAAAAAAY overrateted and does not deserve all of this praise. I think that the only thing I learned from this book was how to actually get up early enough to throw it in the back of the garbage truck. A total watse of time and money, don't even think about buying it, it doesn't even deserve 1 star.
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Summary: Make sure you've got insulin ready
Review: With an air of great surprise and wonderment Mitch Albom tells us that the Great Truth is, essentially, to smell the roses. Sorry, but this is not news. Nor are these: one should live for the present, make the best of bad situations, forgive others, and appreciate life's small pleasures. Yet that is all this book really has to tell us. It is cliche-ridden and poorly written, jumping from viewpoint to viewpoint and occasionally perpetrating some glaring bloopers. For example, Mr. Albom reports the innermost thoughts of Prof. Schwartz at one point and then asserts that the professor "never told a soul." Oh? Then how exactly did Mr. Albom know? Some of the dialogue is so contrived it sounds like it came out of a Hallmark card. I find it hard to believe anyone, much less a Brandeis professor, actually talks like that. But the thing that is most difficult to stomach is the transparent jumping-on-a-real-moneymaker attitude of the author. He forgot his old professor, the one who cried at graduation (PLEASE! ) until he saw that Ted Koppel had discovered him. Then Mr. Albom was all over him. What a manipulative book. If I were one of Professor Schwartz's former students or family members, I would be throwing up right about now.
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Summary: A quick read reveals a lasting message
Review: As I began to read Albom's latest work, I was prepared for a melodramatic and shallow book. After all, the subject of a long lost student meeting up with a wise, old professor for a dose of wisdom in between dying breaths is not the type of content I usually wait in line for. While some passages were a strain in this regard, the book did become harder to put down as the pages were turned. How should one feel after reading Tuesdays with Morrie? Lucky, to not have know an individual in such dire circumstances or to witness such a gradual and trying exit from life? Or ironically, sad, because such a relationship described and experienced by Albom ends up being just the opposite - a deep, spiritual voyage with someone who is actually, very much alive? These are the questions the book leaves you with. In doing so, Tuesdays with Morrie leaves its own impression as a meaningful work.
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Summary: I understand
Review: I have cancer and was given this book by a friend who told me that I was Morrie. I never understood the value of living until faced with the certainty of dying. The wit, humor, wisdom and beauty of Morrie is warm and compassionate. I have highlighted many portions of this book and lend it often.
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