The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Summary: After a Loss
Review: My mom passed away less then 3 months ago and it left me with questions about how she was. This book put me at ease and helped a lot with the grieving process. It was awesomely written and kept my interest til the end. I read it in one day. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has lost someone close and to those who take life for granted.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book is so well written. I read it in one day and find myself thinking about it all the time. It is definitely one of the best books I've read in a long time. I recommend it to everyone, any age.

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Summary: Something to think about...
Review: This story was highly enjoyable, but more so, it was thought provoking. It makes one realize that even what we may view as an ordinary life, might have an extraordinary impact on the lives of others. Very well done and its brevity was a plus. A quick read for a busy Mom.

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Summary: Enlightning
Review: Thought provoking and powerful. This is a wonderful book to read.

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Summary: Appreciation of Simplicity
Review: This book in its short and simple way help us to look into people and life with a new appreciation. The five people he met in heaven revealed so much about life that most of us took it for granted. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to spend an enjoyable afternoon. It's so refreshing to read a good novel without exaggeration of sex, violence or foul language.

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Summary: simply the best...
Review: Quite possibly one of the best books I have ever read. Easy enough to be read in one sitting but the content is thought provoking and memorable.

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Summary: Not That Great...
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. I was under the impression I was about to read something insightful and thought provoking....too bad this book is neither. I recommend skipping this one unless you enjoy wasting your time.

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Summary: Heavenly
Review: I am a huge reader and this is one of my favorite books ever. I read it in one sitting. It makes you think about lives intersecting and how each story affects the other and the other affects the next. Basically, the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. It makes you also think about death and how it doesn't just take someone; it misses someone else, and in that small distance, lives are changed. We think such things are random, but there is a balance to it. There is an excellent page of writing on what the character learned in the war. You should buy the book for that reason only. Great quote from the book: We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

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Summary: I would read it again!
Review: This book is one of few that teaches lessons while it educates and entertains. It is descriptive, with a story that everyone should take the time out to read. The main character in the book, Eddie, learns life lessons from five people he meets in heaven. Those lessons he is also able to reflect upon his own life and the decisions he has made to be able to see that each decision has a ripple effect. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: Albom's Five
Review: Mitch Albom presents a second novel to "Tuesday's With Morrie." Yet, while his first novel focuses on the END of one's life, the second novel, "The Five People You Meet In Heaven," he suggests a new outlook on the afterlife. While Morrie's story is more about proving his life was valuable - to others, Eddie's story is about what the meaning of life is intrinsically and learning the mistakes, the causes, and the consequences of the decisions made in his life. For, the book begins with Eddie - a war veteran at 83 years old, head of maintenance at Ruby Point Amusement Park, and his attempt to save a girl from a falling cart. And how it took Eddie's life. Eddie wonders about the girl, and when he goes to heaven he is thinking that finding out whether or not he saved her is his answer to his meaning of life on earth. Was his "ending" successful, he wonders?
Yet Eddie's supposed "ending," he learns, is also a beginning. It is a beginning for him to explore with five people who have impacted his life or been impacted by it, directly or indirectly. While it the beginning for Eddie, through meeting each of the five people, he is also able to bring his heavenly visitors closure on their own lives' on earth.
There is no hero in the story, but yet a regular man, living in the regular world...and yet Albom himself is a hero for providing such an interesting outlook on this possibility of the afterlife.
I ask myself after reading this, "When I go to heaven, who are the five people who will explain my life to me?" -- and this is certainly thought provoking in that it can make one think about, knowing that there are going to be five people that in all of life's decisions, there will be several that can change one's own life - and those of others' - forever. People have called this earth shattering, yet I would say it shows how tightly knit the people on this earth are and how things can never truly be shattered.