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Summary: Judge for yourself...
Review: Anyone who gives this book a poor review isn't saying much about the book, but a lot about themselves. This is the kind of book that will comfort you when you feel like no one cares, and recommended for those who have lost a loved one.
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Summary: Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!
Review: I would highly recommend this book to anyone searching for a beautiful, life-affirming way to spend an afternoon. Mr. Albom has written a book that is a cut above and well worth your time. I could not put this book down!
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Summary: A Simple, Touching Fable
Review: In "Tuesdays with Morrie," Mitch Albom passed along lessons from a man facing death. In his first novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," Albom speculates on what may happen after death, and shows how our lives here on Earth are intertwined in ways we may not imagine.Eddie felt trapped in a life he didn't choose, spending much of his life as the "ride man," at Ruby Pier amusement park--just like his father. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies trying to save a little girl. Did he save her? That's the first thing Eddie wants to know, but before he can learn the little girl's fate, he first encounters five people whose lives intersected with his. This story is a reminder of the impact our actions have, often unintentionally and unknowingly, on our lives and the lives of people we may never have known. Albom's novel shows that there is meaning and purpose in even the most mudane of lives. Albom has said that the character of Eddie was inspired by his Uncle Eddie, a man who felt he hadn't achieved much in life. Perhaps Uncle Eddie knew how much he influenced and inspired his nephew, but if he didn't know in life, I'm certain a copy of this book has made it to heaven.
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Summary: Simply poor
Review: Mr. Album has written a story that my teen-aged daughter would be ashamed to turn into English Composition class. This book is simplistic, poorly conceived, mindless, and trite. I think maybe the wisdom in "Morrie" was clearly and entirely "Morrie's" and Mr. Albom, apparently not much of a writer based on this hackneyed attempt, was a very lucky man to have been there to record Morrie's thoughts. I strongly recommend skipping this one unless you like to be bored pretty much out of your mind. I couldn't take it, even though it's a short book. I'll say one thing though. Hype obviously sells books. That's the only thing that must be selling this awful work. We shouldn't reward Mr. Albom for this. Let him write something good, then buy it but not before.
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Summary: Heaven ok. Enjoyed the recommended title
Review: I bought this book with the recommended Emotional Intelligence Quickbook. I wasn't that impressed with "heaven" though maybe I was looking for something different. The Emotional Intelligence Quickbook fit the bill and can see why it was recommended. It was interesting to read and test my emotional intelligence online--there's a free test with the book ;)
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Summary: Insightful
Review: Thought provoking and insightful, as well as witty and creative. I also suggest the book, The Little Guide To Happiness.
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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.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful
Review: Inspiring, comforting, a joy to read.
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Summary: inspiring
Review: This is one of the most beautiful books about man's pilgrimage through life. The plot is amazing. I hold that nobody can say for certain what his/her purpose in life is or whether ones' purpose had been achieved when the person dies. Still it is good for us to remember the troubles of our life, recollect the memories of things, judge the impact they had on those around us or on humanity as a whole, and determine whether we achieved what we've been trying to find out in life. Life's meaning is unveiled for us to understand in this book. This is a positively inspiring book. It reminds me of THE VERDICT OF HADES in the collection of stories entitled "THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES."
Also recommended: DIVINE COMEDY, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE
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Summary: AWSOME
Review: This book was very powerful. I am 13 and i believe that if you can read than you should this book.
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