The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Summary: It's true - It is written to help people - just not you
Review: i read this book with an intention to research on my theory - Mitch is out to make money again (why not, it's good money). it's ok - i mean there are people out there who will do more harm to make money, aint it?
but using dying (or dead) people to write a "self-help" book, to make reader to feel good about themselves? so i supposed if you are a bank robber and a murderer you better read this book becasue you will feel good that you are actually helping people, indirectly. maybe the guy you kill ought to be killed anyway.
this book is more than pathetic, it's dangerous. this book just confirmed my belief that the author simply use Morrie for his own benefit. this just makes me sick!

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Summary: ANOTHER GEM BY A VERY GIFTED WRITER
Review: Like so many, I long awaited the follow up to Tuesdays With Morrie. Mitch Albom has done it again. "Five People...." is a beautiful fable that is easy to read with its messages very easy to comprehend. Mitch's character development captures the reader in a way no other writer can. He is masterful at describing the clouds and color and the true meaning of both. Bottom Line -- Read The Book. I finished it in one afternoon. If you are looking for a book that gives one mans version of the after-life than this is your book. I've got to tell you -- Mitch Albom has become my favorite author!!!!!!! And for those of you who haven't read Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom -- SHAME ON YOU.

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Summary: Sorely Disappointed To Say the Least
Review: I loved Tuesdays With Morrie but this thing was the worst book Ive paid money for in years. Disappointed? Putting it mildly. Just poorly written and confusing. Tried and tried to get something from this and finally gave up. I have a home library of 2000+ books and I left this in the motel. Hate to be this negative but what a bad book.

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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: I found this book unreadable. It never overcomes it's preachy, silly tone and premise. Wait for it to come to your local library, and then avoid it.

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Summary: Fine read. Makes you think.
Review: The book is a relatively short but engaging read. I recommend this for anyone who enjoys a "good tale" but especially for those interested in spiritual and philosophical matters. The story sometimes brought me to tears. It certainly provoked thought on the "meaning of life" and how our mundane earthly existence might be much more important than we imagine.

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Summary: A short, but very poignant, life story!
Review: I picked this book up, when I was wandering through a Border's book store, a few weeks ago. The story sounded very interesting from the information I read on the back cover, and I found it to be very captivating. I found the story to really be a parable about life, and really that is where it is effective. The story about Eddie, though it may be fiction/fantasy based, does show how people can affect your life even without you being aware of it. You don't have to believe that the premise could be true to enjoy the story. I was completely unprepared for the final person, as I am sure most readers will be. The person I expected it to be didn't appear, but rather the one person who had the most impact on his life from the day Eddie saw the person. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to readers of all ages.

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Summary: A truly Heavenly book
Review: This is a very special story about life, death, a person's purpose and redemption. I'm sure you have to be in just the right place in your life to truly appreciate it's value. And if you have no heart, you just won't get it. It is written very simply, but anything more complicated would ruin the message. Yes it is a message book, but I think it's specialness is that it's message is unique to each person. I couldn't put it down. I thought it was one of the best stories I had ever read, and yes it did bring tears to my eyes.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: This book started out well but went nowhere.
Feels like the author wrote it to profit on his
"Tuesdays with Morrie" reputation.
Tsk. Tsk Tsk. I sold mine on Amazon the day after I finished the book. Net loss, one evening and $0.75.

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Summary: Author is creative, but way too cheesy to be engaging
Review: I had high expectations for this book, given that Tuesdays with Morrie was as moving as it was. The author tries sell another book to the same audience, but ends up presenting a soap-opera/cartoon of a novel as a way to engage the same subject. There is clearly a need in this day and age for writing on the meaning of life, but this was not well done at all, and it was not worth plowing through the melodrama (as someone mentioned above) to get to the several, sentence-long, semi-compelling aphorisms. I actually couldnt finish reading the book it because it was so annoyingly overdone. It seemed way too artificial to present anything real on the meaning of life. Youre better off picking up a film by woody allen.

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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Albom does it again. He is able to touch on the afterlife in a wonderful way that hints of a higher being, but does not focus on it.