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Summary: Warning...
Review: Be ready for an interesting idea of heaven! I think this book will appeal to a lot of people. Some readers may also like "Treat Your Own Knees."
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Summary: Hard To Write a Review - Very Subjective
Review: I think this book deserves 3 stars with a caveat. Some will like the book and many will think it is nonsense.This is one of those touchy-feely short large print font books about 200 pages long and if it was written in a normal #8 font would be under 100 pages. It is a best seller like (another short book in big print) "Who Moved My Cheese". It has a few simpler messages but not much more. Either you are open to a short sermon on one man's view of the meaning of life and or you will not like the book. I am sure some people will absolutely love this book. It is all very subjective. If you give this as a gift think about the recipient first otherwise they might just throw the book away. Jack in Toronto
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Summary: A quick and delightful read
Review: I loved reading this book, and I hated reading this book. I loved it because the story is compelling, thought-provoking, inspiring, interesting, sad and funny. I hated reading it because it only reminded me word-by-word that I'll never compare to Albom's mastery of the written word. His main character is Eddie, and yet, at the same time, the main character is you, the reader. You needn't believe in God to enjoy this book, you need only be a person who's wondered what's next. This book doesn't give a definitive answer, of course, but it certainly gets you thinking... or should I say, musing. Yes, musing is a much better word, and you'll spend plenty of time doing just that. "Wonder what..." and "What if..." are contemplated in this book of beginnings and endings, and, as Albom so eloquently put it, "understanding your yesterdays." Brava on this, Albom's finest work to date, which says quite a bit since he's written some doozies already. Further, it only took a few hours to read, which allowed me the luxury of diving head-first into a good book, and still having supper done on time.
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Summary: Eddie, the man who has made me think of my Heaven
Review: Dear Potential Reader,
Eddie will touch your life in many ways. It will make you look back and wonder who's life you have touched; and make you consider who has really touched your life. It will make you wonder who your 5 people are; and if anyone is still waiting for you to complete their Heaven. As a nurse, I really wonder about the lives I may have touched and not even know it. From the little girl's hand at Children's Hospital, to the 95 year old on Hospice......God I hope I have made a difference. May you be able to complete your Heaven one day...may it be a beach in S.C., or a small town in the U.P. or just a moment shared in 10th grade on Outer Drive.....I hope your Heaven is all that it can be.
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Summary: Boring sentimental garbage
Review: This book could have been good. If it had been about 200 pages shorter. The writing is slow, and stunted. The plot is cliche, without any real twists or turns. Within the first two sentences I could see exactly how this book would turn out. A man dies, realizes he was important to the world, and has his soul redeemed.This is pulp trash, meant to be read once and tossed at the bottom of the pile. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: Don't waste your time.
Review: I only finished this book because it was required for a book club. All other members of the club considered it a waste of their time also. None of the 5 people gave any reason for the subject's existence as was the premise of the book. There was nothing in the book that made me feel better informed of anything at all. I like to be able to finish a book and feel I have been at least a little enlightened about something but there was nothing here. I won't waste my time with this author again, there are too many good books out there that have a compelling story line that entertains while enlightening the reader about something.
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Summary: Pleased Everyone
Review: I bought ten copies of this book and gave them as gifts. A wonderful thing to share and spread around. Thank You Mitch Albom!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: What a wonderfully powerful book this is. I really enjoyed it, enjoyed it so much when i started reading it I did not put it down until I was done. Wow!! I also want to recommend some other books that I have found to be powerful reads: Nightmares Echo,I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,Bleachers,Running With Scissors
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Summary: A Review to The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Review: The book I read was The Five People You Meet In Heaven. It was about a guy named Eddie who was an 84-year-old widower. He worked at an amusement park and made sure the rides were safe. There was a ride that was stuck, so one of the workers went to fix it. Something went wrong and there was a little girl standing on the tracks. Eddie pushed her off the tracks, but he was killed. He met five different people. People he killed, people who saved him from dieing, and other important people. They told him things that happened in their lives that was a part of Eddie's. They told him things so that Eddie could understand things that happened in his life. The book wasn't really about God, but more about things that happened in Eddie's life. I thought the book was OK. I would recommend it to someone who likes to read.
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Summary: Mitch Albom came up with a neat idea for his next book
Review: First of all, Mitch Albom gets credit for coming up with the idea of this book, because after the amazing success of "Tuesdays With Morrie" his next book was going to suffer in comparison. Still, with "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," Albom manages to come up with an inspirational idea that does him credit. The best compliment I can play to this book is that I think we would have heard about it if it had been written before "Tuesdays With Morrie" or if it was written by someone other than Mitch Albom. The worst thing I can same about "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" is that the idea is better than the execution, which is another compliment. The idea is concisely explained early in the story: When you go to heaven you meet five people, each of whom was in your life for a reason and they altered your life in a significant way. You may not have understood why they were important in your life, but that is what heaven if for: to understand your life on earth so that you can have the peace you have been searching for. Another compliment, although it might seem backhanded, is that once you get to the point where the rules are explained to the main character in the story, you become distracted. I suspect I am not the only person reading this book who put it down at that point and speculated as to who would be the five people we would meet if we made it to heaven. Of course, one of Albom's points is that will be surprised by who the five people are, so whoever you come up with, you would be wrong. But the idea is intriguing and perhaps of more value than standing around the 21st century equivalent of the water color to discuss who should be voted out of the tribe next. Everybody has their own idea of heaven, Albom notes, and he presents this book as a wish more than a guess. As wishes go, this one is pretty good. I would suggest that you not sit down and read "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" in one sitting, although that is easy to do, but instead try to break it down to one person (and one lesson) a night. That would also give you more time to devote to coming up with your own version of this tale. Ultimately, perhaps the biggest difference between this book and "Tuesdays With Morrie" is that the point of this one might be easier to work into your own life.
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