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Summary: Incredibly shallow, banal, and silly
Review: I bought this book with a great deal of anticipation. From the first page, I started to get a bad feeling about it. It is a book meant to capitalize on "Morrie" but it's so boring and shallow. I can't imagine how anybody would like it. It kind of turned my stomach, really, as I read on. I just had this sense of Mr. Albom thinking "I can really fool them if I write this." Sad, very sad. Don't waste your money. I read a lot of books. This one went in the trash.
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Summary: this book rocks
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: good stuff from Mitch
Review: no, this book is not another Tuesdays With Morrie, it's not meant to be. one could argue that the concept of The Five People You Meet in Heaven is not original, but I don't think that's really the point. this book is infused with some simple truths. sometimes you don't realize what random moments in your life mean, until something makes you understand. this book makes you remember, it makes you feel. Mitch Albom is amazing, read the column, listen to the show. some of this things he says are really profound. the writing is not poor at all, I was amazed at the brilliance of it actually. this is a GOOD book.
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Summary: It makes you think about your life .......
Review: I enjoyed this book. It does jump around. But I like that way it is set up that way. It starts on the day that Eddie dies. It tells every hour what is occuring to lead up to his death. Then his death happens and he ends up in heaven. But he doesn't know the first person and what meeting this person means to him. But later as he talks to this person, he understands more. Then it goes back into his life to a much earlier birthday and what was occuring then. You get a view of Eddies life from beginning to end. The book continues this way throughout the book. Each person he meets lets you understand the meaning of your life too. How we all mean something to each other and how we all touch each other's life without even realizing it. Read the book, I don't think you'll be disappointed. It's not Tuesday's With Morrie. But it's short and to the point.
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Summary: I agree--poor writing!
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie it ain't, but it is cleverly marketed to look like it. The jist of the book is that heaven is a place where your life is explained to you by five pivotal people in your life. The author flashes back and forth between the past, present, and hereafter too quickly for the story to be imbued with any meaningfulness--it was pretty banal from beginning to end. Halfway through I just wanted to put the book down and not take it up again, but I forced myself to finish only b/c it is a short book. (Incidentally, the war scenes in the book are not believable.)
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Summary: No thank you
Review: What is this book? I can tell you what it is not: it is not original. It is not compelling. It is not reasonably priced. It is not intelligent. It is not wise. Wait: it is preachy. That's what it is. Read at your own risk.
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Summary: Poor Writing
Review: Well, this is not Tuesday's With Morrie. That book was really good and based on a real person. Here we have a fable that is poorly written and rather flat. I did not feel inspired at all. This is really a reworking of It's A Wonderful Life, so the idea behind the book is not original. What gets me is the publisher's attempt to market this book as a sequel. The book looks like Tuesday with Morrie in size, shape and color, which makes me think that one really should never judge a book by its cover!
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Summary: So telling!
Review: The first post here was a classic! From his misuse of the English language, to his brilliant display of ignorance. I envision a guy sitting in his trailer, watching Bill O'Reilly, sipping a Busch Beer, anticipating the day when he votes for GW Bush. Great Book, illiterate first poster!
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Summary: This vet resents this book
Review: I am a veteran and I resent this book. It's supposed to be about this guy who's taken prisoner on some Phillipine island. I was in the south pacific, buddy, and the Japanese didn't do it that way. They took a lot of prisoners on the Phillipines when the war started but they all surrendered in mass. After that, no Japanese soldier sneaked in and put a rifle to your head and took you prisoner. They just shot you. They hated prisoners. So right there, I knew this books hadn't been researched very well. I was told it would make me feel better that my wife is in heaven. Well, my wife would tell those five people where to go and it wouldn't be in heaven, I can tell you. I'd just soon watch Touched by an Angel. At least, I know that show is just trying to get me to buy something. Let me save you the price of the book and tell you what it says. When you die, you go to heaven and people will tell you what a neat guy you were and it's all OK. Are you buying that? And it's supposed to make me feel better that this writer made up this story? Like he knows? He don't know. Nobody knows. Me, I hope to see some of my buddies there and have a beer while our wives roll their eyes at us old cranky guys.
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Summary: What's the hype about?
Review: It's at least short and so my two stars but Albom's attempt at writing a fable left me feeling as if I'd been manipulated. I suspect a ghost writer or a panel of them at work here. This is a study in how hype can sell any book, I suppose, and from that standpoint it deserves to be studied as a pop culture creature.
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