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Summary: A real eye opener of life
Review: Of all the books I have read in my life this is the best one so far. It makes you live life to the fulliest and not be so caught up with the fear of death. Not only taught me about death but also all those things we fear about the most. For example, love, regrets, and marriage. These are just a few of the many things that Morrie teaches us through his inspiring words.It has really inspire me to live my life with no regrets. I just hope that I can be as strong as Morrie if I am placed that kind of situation that he was. I highly recommend this book to everyone that feels that their life is not worth much because this book will teach you not to take life for granted.
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is definitely one of the best books that I've ever read. Once I picked it up, I couldn't stop until I found myself on the last page. Although the book is very short, nearly every page carries a message. It's purpose is to teach us a lesson; that was Morrie's final goal. He wanted to create this one last thesis with one of his favorite students, Mitch Albom, that would give people insight into how to live their lives and what it feels like to die. In this book, not only do we learn from Morrie (who died from ALS) how to live life to the fullest, but we learn from Mitch's mistakes as well. All too often we get caught up in our fast paced culture that we forget to stop and look around and actually enjoy things. Mitch Albom uses a unique approach to get his old professor's message out. When I was reading this, I couldn't help but feel like Morrie was speaking right to me. The book could relate to anyone; it covers so many topics from love and life to death and trying to live even when death is knocking on the door. I highly recommend reading Tuesdays with Morrie. You can't help but love Morrie by the end of the book, and like me, you might even tear up at the end a little.
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Summary: People Need People
Review: We all are busy living our lives and we often forget what we need to do to build a life filled with rewards and happiness. Tuesdays With Morrie shares a personal relationship between a teacher and a student that extends far beyond academics and a few years in a classroom. It reminds us how important relationships with friends and family are and encourages us to reach out and build these relationships throughout our lives.
By the end of this book, we understand that the riches we are looking for are found in people not things, with the exception of this book. It is a treasure worth having.
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Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie was an excellent book. It is very down to earth, very easy to relate to. By the end of my reading I felt like I almost knew Morrie personally. I honestly hate to read but with this particular novel I could not put it down.
Morrie Schwatz was a history professor at Brandeis University. Mitch Albom, a former student of Morrie's and a well known sports writer. Mitch was reunited with Morrie several years later after the doctors diagnosed Morrie with ALS. Mitch had heard about Morrie's diagnoses from an interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline. Once Mitch got wind of the news he decided to go and visit Morrie. Mitch's job had gone on strike so that allowed him the time to go and visit Morrie. The visit actually turned into a regular meeting every Tuesday. Morrie was a well spoken man he was so full of wisdom and knowledge. If I was a character in the book I believe that I could just sit all day and listen to Morrie talk. Morrie would always talk to Mitch about different subjects, some of their conversations were on the touchy side and others were not. Due to Morrie's diagnoses every Tuesday that Mitch would go to visit him, Mitch would noticed that Morrie's health was on a decline each time. Morrie always told Mitch what was on his mind. Morrie I guess you could say was real or well more real than other people out there in today's world. Morrie once went to a funeral and said, "what a waste all those people saying wonderful thing and the guy that died didn't even get to hear them." Morrie said to Mitch as a word of knowledge, "forgive yourself, forgive others, don't wait." Morrie said, "the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." Morrie said that the one thing he hated most about his disease was knowing that one day he would not be able to go to the bathroom by himself. Toward the end of Morrie's life he actually saw that day. In the book it says that on the 14 Tuesday Morrie and Mitch more or less say good bye to each other. Morrie passed away on the following Saturday and was buried the following Tuesday. Morrie's main thing was to teach Mitch the right ways of life. How not to be tied up in all the hustle and bustle of the world today. But to actually sit down and look at what's around. To look at the meaningful things in live and what they bring to you. Its crazy how our society works that it takes someone dying or a tragedy for people to realize what life really means.
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Summary: Tuesday People
Review: This is a true story of a life-long mentor, and his Tuesday meetings with his student. More than the deep bond that two friends share, this book is on lessons for life. Told with wisdom, this story deals with experiences in life, and on life's ever changing ways. Tuesdays are the coaching days for Morrie. He offers insight into the world of a dying man who is truly happy. Before he dies he gives his last few lessons on life, love, and family. It brings out the simple things in life that make true hapiness. Morrie leaves his intelligent thoughts to be shared. The emotions of this book reflect those of a poem. The knowledge in this book reflects an encyclopedia. But the lessons to be learned will not be found in any book of reference. Take a small look into the little pleasures that can offer so much, and listen as the book whispers to you. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Adams wonderfully describes what Morrie has done with his life. This book will leave you beathless yet full. Mitch Albom does a wonderful job of delivering the message that Morrie wished to share.
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Summary: "Love each other or die"
Review: There is no doubt about it: Mitch Albom struck more than a chord with this homage to the life and passing of outstanding professor Morrie Schwartz. Telling the story of his weekly Tuesday meetings with Morrie, his old professor that was going through the pains of degenerative disease ALS, Albom evolves as a human being as Morrie approaches his final days, and he realizes how much we place importance on the wrong things in life and how much we fear leaving life altogether. It is practically impossible to quote the book without leaving out something meaningful: that powerful (yet simple) is this tale, to the point of being the only book I can recall having read once again after I read it the first time. And nowadays Morrie's message is as important as it was a few years ago, when the book first came out: "Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place... Love each other or die."
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Summary: We Should all Have a Few Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: While I don't necessarily agree with everything (i.e. the philosophy of) espoused in this book, I have, nonetheless, gleaned many lessens about life from its pages. This book is an emotional and intellectual ride with Morris Schwartz (late Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University). This is a record, of sorts, about his last few months of life, his thoughts about life and certain things in life such as marriage, regrets, the perfect day, money, love, forgiveness, etc. Mitch Albom has a great writing style, simple but yet detailed, descriptive and emotive. There is much wisdom in these pages, much emotion, much love, much grief, much warmth, much compassion, much courage, much experience, much mentoring, much teaching, and the list could go on. I find it interesting that when I see famous people in interviews and they are asked to reveal who has had the most influence in their lives up to that point, most make mention of a school teacher. Morrie was such a person - one who had much influence. This book will move you to tears and cause you to laugh. It is quite easy to read and you could probably finish it in about an hour or so, but in that hour your life will be changed in one way or another having read these pages.
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Summary: What if you could learn all of life¿s lessons early in life?
Review: What if you could learn all of life's lessons early in life? Do you think you would be better off? A better person more in touch with your emotional side? Mitch Albom got this chance and told his story in his memoir he called "his final thesis." Tuesdays with Morrie is Albom's story describing his weekly Tuesday visits to his college professor's house, except it is over fifteen years after he has graduated from college and his professor is on his death bed with ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gherig's disease. Each week they discuss different topics, including the world, death, the fear of aging, family, emotions, forgiveness, money, regrets, feeling sorry for yourself, how love goes on, marriage, our culture, and a perfect day. Each week Albom moves closer to learning life's true values and lessons. Throughout the memoir are flashbacks of Albom's college years and also important factual information relevant to the weekly message. Albom learns to care and changes his life so it doesn't revolve around money, material possessions, and work. Instead, he learns to value love, family, relationships, and the life he was given. Tuesdays with Morrie is a touching, eloquent, and enjoyable book to read. It is something everyone should experience, when only few receive the opportunity to. I've never read anything more moving and truth than Tuesdays with Morrie.
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Summary: It Moves you to Tears
Review: In the beginning, I thought that this would be another typical teacher recommendation type of book. But because of the positive comments I got about it, I decided to try it. Soon, I began to get into the story, the sadness of the disease, and I began to feel sorry for Morrie. However, as the plot showed me hidden lines written in between the sentences, I began to see not the sorrow, but the joy in every chapter. When Morrie could no longer get out of bed, I felt devastated because I had gotten to "know" Morrie through the book. It really showed me that in this capitalistic world that we live in, it is possible for someone that seems to have handicaps to show you the way out of them. In conclusion, I think that this book is one of the few that touched all the feelings hidden within a person.
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Summary: Stellar read!
Review: This seemingly simple, short, and touching book is great on several levels. First, you can read it for the heartwarming story that it is. Second, you can take a look at your own life and compare. Third, there's still time to change. And that's what TUESDAYS is really about--our ability and desire to change, not only our life, but those around us for the better. What a great inspiritationl book this is. And the movie wasn't half bad either! Also recommended: McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD
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