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Summary: Pass the Tissue Box
Review: As you can tell this is a very sad, but touching book about a special bond that can never be broken. I loved this book from the moment I read the first page, due to the format which it was written in. This special bond is that of a College professer and his student. It was my favorite book ever and I suggest you read it.
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Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: I have never been impacted so much by any book. I listened to it in the audio version and it was wonderful, inspiring and insightful even though of course a little sad. The feeling of sadness was lost as you became wrapped in these two men's lives. I will be passing this book on to loved ones and friends alike.
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Summary: Uplifting!
Review: I bought this book at 7:00 p.m. one night and finished it at 10:30 p.m. the same night with breaks only to use the commode and catch my breath from sobbing. It truly was the most touching and emotional piece of writing I have ever read and I would recommend it to anyone. Of course, the topic is illness and death, but it is actually an uplifting book about life and the human spirit that no one should miss. Buy it and a box of tissues and let your heart indulge!
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Summary: Agree w/ Reader from USA...
Review: The "Reader from Usa" below is absolutely correct. Just another piece of pop fluff full of platitudes to make us "feel good" and gloss over the real tragic alienation we all feel in late capitalism. But "Reader from Usa's" attempt to point people to the philosophy section is just spitting in the wind. Because those books actually require you to use your brain, engage the texts and think about them. This book is just another piece of that pre-fab, chewy goodness that consumer society just loves to serve up.
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Summary: An Inspiring Book!
Review: Human relationships have been reduced to quick e-mails, pages, and voice messages. While technology develops convenient means for contacting people, the personal contact that comes through letters and one-on-one visits seems to vanish. These basic human needs, love and human contact, according to Morrie Schwartz, are often forgotten among the material demands of our culture. Through Tuesday's With Morrie readers follows Mitch Albom, a successful sports writer, as he reunites with college professor Morrie Schwartz. Suffering from a debilitating and fatal disease, Morrie has only a few months left to his life. This reunion sparks what the two refer to as Morrie's last class. Instead of allowing the disease to overcome him mentally, Morrie reflects on his life, sharing the knowledge and experience of his years with anyone willing to listen. Mitch and Morrie meet on Tuesday afternoons to discuss life's most perplexing questions. Through this interaction readers come to know Morrie as an extremely wise and loving man. Eavesdropping on the conversations, readers hear insightful commentary on questions involving marriage, death, and the meaning of life. Morrie's emphasis on the basic requirements for human happiness such as nature, love, physical contact, shakes readers into evaluating their life. Even in his last moments, Morrie is a teacher offering suggestions to any students willing to open their minds and question their way of life. As with any lesson, this book only gives suggestions; it ultimately remains the reader's responsibility to act on this advice.
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Summary: Tuesday with Morrie
Review: "Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."These are the words of an old man to a young man about life's greatest lesson and his desire to give it away before he dies. And this book is the young man's gift of giving this lesson away faithfully to us. This story sings of a life well lived by an unsung hero who goes about his days' changing the world through his teaching, and sometimes it takes decades, if not longer, before the impact of his words pierce his students hearts. Such was the case of the author, Mitch Albom. His favorite uncle's death at age 44 had so affected him that he went from aimlessness as a sometime musician to earning a Master's degree in journalism and crafting a flourishing career as a sports writer. And along the way, work became his life. Then one evening, as he is channel surfing, he caught a TV interview of Ted Koppel interviewing his favorite professor, Morrie, about his life and impending death from ALS. Mitch then reconnects with Morrie, flying from his job in Detroit to Morrie's home outside of Boston, to meet on Tuesdays to discuss the universal issues of our lives, things like death and fear and aging, family and forgiveness and a meaningful life. What we need to talk about and usually don't get around to until it is too late become the very topics of these Tuesdays with Morrie. As the leaves change color and weeks turn into months, we are invited along and drawn into their conversations, as "The Dead Poet's Society" meets "My Dinner with Andre'". Buy this book. Read it on Tuesdays. And after you've finished, give it to someone you love.
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: This book should be in everybody's home.I have read this book four times
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Summary: morons, your bus is leaving
Review: The views expressed in this book are not always stupid, and if you read only one book of pop philosophy this decade you could do worse. But if you care for more than fifteen minutes about any of the issues discussed, and want to think for yourself about the possibility of disagreeing here and there with the conclusions reached on every important topic after ten pages of non-argument, then you might be surprised to know that there exist far better treatments of these same issues which have not been converted into TV specials. Search under "philosophy" . . .
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Summary: New look on life... in only 2 days
Review: I could not put the book down. In only two days ones lifelong goals and ideas can be changed after reading this book. It is about as simple as it gets and makes it a must read book for anyone you care about. Enjoy!
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Summary: once in awhile...
Review: you get to read a book that (sniff, sniff) affects you in a really nice way. this book did. read it if not to remind yourself that you are part of a bigger family :)
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