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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tuesdays With Morrie
Review: This was my book review for english that includes descriptions of the characters, summary of plot, and reccomendations.

Mitch Albom's novel Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story about a dying man named Morrie Schwartz and a young man, Mitch Albom. Morrie was Mitch's professor in college and taught classes on the meaning of life. Morrie had always been Mitch's favorite teacher, and at graduation he promised Morrie that he would keep in touch with him. Sadly, over the years, the two fell out of touch as Mitch became a wealthy businessman who lost sight of the teachings of his college professor. One day, Mitch was flipping through the channels on television and saw an interview between Morrie Schwartz and Ted Koppel. Morrie was discussing his battle with the disease ALS. Mitch realized that he needed to visit Morrie and catch up before it was too late. The novel focuses on Morrie's fight with the disease as he tried to inspire in Mitch the lessons about life that he learned so many years ago, but seemed to have lost sight of.
Mitch is a man in his thirties and has a wife named Janine. He writes freelance as a sports columnist for the paper and his main focus on life is on material things before he reconnects with Morrie. Following the shock that his favorite teacher has a life-threatening disease, he decides to visit Morrie thousands of miles away. He makes a weekly routine of this and proceeds to visit him every Tuesday. Mitch tries to keep things as normal as possible with Morrie in spite of the fact that things are obviously changing. He records on videotape his many sessions with Morrie in hopes to help other people realize that life is not about material things.
Morrie is a man of 78 who has two grown sons and a wife, Charlotte. Mitch Albom describes Morrie as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and a Christmas elf. As his disease progresses, he feels the need to talk with Mitch more and more. Morrie tries to make Mitch realize that many people lead meaningless lives, rushing to meet deadlines and not making time for family. Every Tuesday, he and Mitch get together to talk about life's challenges, such as death, marriage, aging, regrets, and forgiveness. Even as he is dying, he manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
I liked that this book was a true story. It gives more meaning to the story, knowing that this actually happened. This book also has a theme that is needed in our world today, that is, to make the most of your time on Earth, to live life to the fullest, and to realize that the most important things in life are not those that money can buy. The novel starts with Morrie at the beginning of his battle with ALS and finishes with him dying from it. Mitch Albom wrote this novel in such a way that the reader feels that he is there with him through the struggle.
I did not like that Morrie died at the end. Morrie's death was imminent, but was nonetheless depressing. This is the only thing that I did not like about the novel. Everything else I enjoyed reading.
I would recommend this book to everyone because it deals with how to live life to the fullest and also discusses the need for humans to genuinely care for one another. Tuesdays With Morrie is a sad but true story of one man's journey through life and another's realization that life's most important moments cannot be bought.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: speechless!
Review: This is a moving, emotional book. I can't possibly do it justice in a review, so I will just write this: Don't only buy one copy for yourself - buy a few, and give them to those who you love. It will speak volumes as to how you feel about them.
Morrie, I hope you're resting in peace. Mitch, I hope you find time to still spend Tuesdays with Morrie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Touching and inspiring
Review: As a human being, I can appreciate this book, but as a nurse I was deeply moved. I am faced with death and the dying process everyday, and this book allows me to view the "inevitable" as not such a definitive end. Morrie's words and outlook on life and death are refreshing and inspiring. I recommend this book to ANYONE, believe me, you'll love it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Book Review To Read
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie is a deep and moving story of Albom's relationship with his college teacher, Morrie Schwartz, with whom Albom has lost touch for sixteen years. After watching him on a TV program, talking to Ted Koppel about what is was like to die from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS). Albom was both horrified and ashamed. He called his old teacher, flew to Boston for a reunion, and began a seris of weekly visits, to spark their loving teacher student relationship again while going over a larger subject in their final class. It was a new lesson of the meaning of life.
This story concerns a man, twenty years after his college graduation, who is reunited with his favorite professor now suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Professor Morrie wanted to die as he lived by teaching the world around him. Each, week, the former student, Mitch would visit his professor to learn a few more lessons for living. On the thirteenth Tuesday, just before his professor died the student asked what he would do if he had twenty-four hours. The professor replied with an answer not everyone would say, Do his exercises then enjoy his breakfast of cinnamon rolls and tea. Then go for a swin, have a friends over for a nice lunch and then take an afternoon walk in the garden. That's all he would wanted if he had twenty-four hours. The days went by and the times a ticking, ending his day with a deep, wonderful sleep.
This simple day that the Professor pictured, Mitch was surprised. "So average that I was actually a little disappointed. I figured he'd fly to Italy or have lunch with the President or romp on the seashore or try every exotic thing he could think of. After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a goot - how could he find perfection in such an average day?" I thought this book was incredibly moving in the relationship between two people who seem so close they could be father and son. On the one hand I was envious of the relationship but on the other I questioned why the author let twenty years go by without even sending a holiday card. In the end, though, he really made a difference in his professor's life and vice versa.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good life lesson
Review: Tuesdays with morrie is a well written book that tackles one of lifes toughest issues.....death. This book gives you a great view into the mind of a very "strong man" who has come to terms with his life problems and accepted as well as embraced them, Morrie Schwartz is an incredibly brave man who teaches us all that in order to learn to live you must learn to die.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good life lesson
Review: I have to admit that when I was assigned this book to read I thought it was going to be one of the most boring books I'd ever read but fortunately that was not the case. Tuesdays with Morrie was a very well written book that tackels some very difficult issues in todays world. This is an excellent book for some one who would like to learn something about life but is affraid to ask.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Wonderful Book. I highly recommend it.
Review: I received "Tuesdays With Morrie" much sooner than expected and in good condition. It is a wonderful book!! I highly recommend it to everyone but, especially to all men. It is one
of the best books written about men getting in touch with their
"softer side" and about not being afraid to show their feelings.
Beautifully written!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Just "OK"
Review: Right off the bat I thought to myself "boring", but it wasnt that bad. I had a particularly hard time with it because my grandmother just died and I, too, am suffering from a fatal disease and dont particularly wan't to talk about dying. However, had I not been so mentally block from the subject matter,perhaps I would haave found it much more entertaining.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A beautiful book about humanity, and what's really important
Review: This is one of the most moving books I've read in a long time. The book can be read in a few hours. But, give yourself four - you may want to read this again to absorb Albom's moving tribute to his mentor and friend.

I was originally drawn to the book out of admiration for Albom's sports writing and his appearances on ESPN, and I'm delighted that I stumbled upon this gem.

I won't say much more because I don't want to give away too much about the book - readers should experience its contents on their own. This is a well-written, easy-to-read treasure about what's really important in life, told by a dying man to his protégé. Morrie's point of view cannot be fully understood by someone not looking death in the eye, but his lessons are thought provoking, memorable and apropos in today's fast-paced, "younger is better" society.

A note about Albom - this is the first book I've read written by him, but it certainly won't be the last. Like any good author - he doesn't tell, he shows. His descriptions of Morrie are vivid - Albom brings him to life. It's not always pleasant, but you feel as if you're in the room with Mitch and Morrie, sharing laughter and tears.

I don't hesitate to admit I had plenty of tears at the end of the book, as I'm sure Albom did when he wrote it.

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Five stars for Tuesdays with Morrie, and six stars to Albom for sharing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A beautiful read - that will really make your day
Review: I'm no one to take any advice about life from. I'm only a young man, beginning my life, a university student from Australia studying in Japan, don't know too much at all. The other reviews that I have just read are really amazing - they really do sum up the book, please have a read of them after you finish with mine.

This is an amazing book. One of my best friends - my librarian, when I graduated from high-school, gave me this book. It really is a lovely read. A book that really does sum up the beauty of life, and the beauty of living, in the most beautiful words that will be recognized through the power of your eyes, and will be understood in your brain, and then transfered to your heart which will act as blood - it will tingle your body and really make you appreciate the life you live. It's a great book.

There is no need to explain the story, there is only need to say that you ain't read any book, until you have read this one. A heart-warming 5 star story, to say the least. Enjoy the read.


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