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Summary: A Feel -Good Story, but I'd dig deeper
Review: Yes, everything we do matters, even if we can't see it at the time. But, where are the ideas to help us to see what we should do at the time, where are the real problems solvers and insights to get deeper into real-life situations? 5 People is a feel-good story, but if you want real guidance and ability to know how to recognize opportunities when you see them, you'll want to go deeper - get a book like Psychic Gifts by Tiffany Snow is a good one I just finished, or find a good workbook on developing skills beyond the ones carried by us at the surface of our souls.
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Summary: scrumtulescent
Review: Seriously, this book and John Grisham's "The Partner" are the two best books I have ever read. I gave 5 copies out as christmas presents and personally can't wait to read it again.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I enjoyed Tuesdays with Morrie and was just as pleased with The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom provides a enjoyable and alternative look at Heaven. He manages to be both touching and not overly wordy simultaneously.
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Summary: Everything Happens for a Reason...
Review: The first book I read for Mitch Albom I loved. The Five People you Meet in Heavan is as good. Great writing, wonderful details, and challenges you in its messages and inspirations... Eddie the maintenance guy in "Ruby Park" dies in the first page of the book, and then the journey starts... Eddie, in starting his second life meets 5 people that do answer his questions, and show him that everything happens for a reason. Each one of the five people have a different message to give, and an interesting view on life. They also prove to him how everything is connected in the different lives... Very highly recommended and once you start you won't be able to stop until the end...
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Summary: The Five People you Meet in Heaven
Review: Very easy to read and keep your interest. I would recommend this book to anyone that is curious about looking at heaven from a different angle.
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Summary: a must read...
Review: As one who has dealt with the loss of several close relatives in recent months, this book was a great help to me. I enjoyed the ease with which one can read this book as the story line is well presented and easy to follow. You really get a good sense of Eddie and know that his life, even though he may not have thought so, mattered. Everyone matters! But this book just goes to show that you never know who you touch and how you affect other's lives....this is a great book and I am glad I read it. It helped me to deal with some great sadness at losing my relatives.
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Summary: The ULTIMATE Entitlement program!
Review: I read through the book and found it to be predictable and amusing in a strained kind of way. Why strained? Because it gave me further insight into the gullibility of people who want something far too badly, whereas any rational consideration of an alternative simply scares the hell out of them. Ahh Heaven, the ULTIMATE Entitlement program. What motivates Jesus to pay for it all? Believe me when I tell you it's gonna cost him,... big time. If you want to heap infinite riches and pleasures on someone then you're likely to get very little return on your investment, even if you are god. Don't you suppose that he'd want a little more than belief and praise for all these good digs? After all, it's not like you'd have "earned" this "ripe for the pick'n" winning lotto ticket of the sky. Cotton candy, corns dogs, orgies, Pie! Mmmmm, heaven! (Halleluiah now). Just don't think that the heaven police (and there has to be one) won't kick you right out of the deluxe apartment in the sky and into the ole "lake 'o fire" if you cross over the line for some of the things you're bound to be tempted to do. You're only human. So be good, for goodness sake, cause Saint Nick's coming. After all, "you get it your way", every time, all the time, for all time, in heaven, right up until you're uncovered (outed?) for being more like the bulk of humanity that didn't qualify for the program. People have such a hunger not to die, this is true. What else is true? Probably not your fantasies. Which is actually why they call them,... fantasies. So what's the afterlife like? Well it may not be just the way the Jesus Industry sells it. Here's a hint. You've probably already experienced it. Remember that exceptionally vast stretch of time before you were born? No? Well, it could be a lot like that. Zip. Or, perhaps it could be something like your essence, a drop plopped into the ocean of all universal essence, which exceeds any religious imaginings by countless magnitudes of oceans, including all essences the religious would find alien and unacceptable on account of it being,.. alien, as (I hate to break it to you) your wee world is not the center of the universe, let alone your modest galaxy. Sorry to rain on your irrational and unstoppable craving for Epcot in the sky. No doubt you'd have expected perfect weather ALL the time too. Well, Happy Reality!
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Summary: Who knew lightening could strike twice?
Review: I was fortunate enough to hear Mitch Albom at a reading in Iowa City not too long ago. I was curious to hear this award-winning sportswriter who, more than coincidentally, also wrote one of my favorite books, "Tuesdays with Morrie." All I can say is it was a great evening. Mitch regaled the 300 or so people with his experience of sleeping in O'Hare airport while coming to Iowa. He is a gifted, natural story-teller. Suffice it to say Mitch has done it again. He has written another heart-reaching book that should be on everyone's must read list. "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" speaks to all of us with humor and truth. It tells the story of Eddie, a man who doesn't feel he's had a good life. I'm sure you'll recognize the "Eddie" in you while the story unfolds through the five people he meets who help him see his life as extraordinary. My wife was sick in bed with the flu when we read it together aloud. We both agreed it was the best sick day either of us had spent. I have since bought 5 copies and sent them to family and friends. It is that good!
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Summary: A Book to Entertain and Make You Think
Review: I bought this book because the title intrigued me. I recommend it because it was not only entertaining, it made me think. This book may challenge you to rethink what you belive about life after death - and before it. What have you done in your life that has been important to someone, that has touched someone, or hurt someone - without you even being aware. How has that shaped your life, or theirs?
When it is all said and done, our perception of our life and it's worth may be very different from the five people we meet. If you think you have "heaven" all figured out - don't read this book. You may have to change your mind.
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Summary: SANCTIMONIOUS DRECK
Review: We'll never know, but I believe that if Mitch Albom had not just written the appealing "Tuesdays with Morrie", this book either would not have been deemed worthy of publishing or would have sunk like a stone. Why do I say that? Let me count the ways: 1) It's BORING. The main character does not engage my interest. Even his love story and his war experiences are unexciting. 2) The writing is BAD. Physical descriptions seem arbitrary and superimposed on the story. The language is clunky. The sentences don't flow. I have nothing against sports writers--I read the sports pages first every day--but this fish is way out of water. 3) The message of the book is the OPPOSITE OF INSPIRING. It encourages people not to change, not to stretch or grow. It seeks to reassure people that even if they live out their status quo, it's all right. They can reconcile in the afterlife their self-defeating choices, their despair, their sense of defeat, their surrender of life. The intellectul thrust of the book, like some anti-Nike, is: JUST DON'T DO IT! That is, don't worry, it's okay, it'll all work out. There's no need to struggle or work on yourself or change. It's okay to stay miserable. All I can say to that is: UGH! The success of this book tells me that a lot of people appreciate the consolation it offers for self-defeating life choices. I may be out of step with that current. So be it. Unlike Albom, my hope for humankind is that we all do not go softly into the night.
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