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Summary: Simply Amazing....
Review: Before I heard about this book, I never read, unless I had too. All I read was the Newspaper, and magazines. Then I saw this book. I was simply stunned about how Mitch Albom tells the story of himself and Morrie. I can't really base this review on comparison with other books because I haven't read lots of other books. This book is simply amazing, I found my self reading during classes, at work, and any time I could. When I didn't have it in my hand, I would wait untill the next break to read it again. I recommend this book for a reader who has just started or is regular reader.
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Summary: one to continue re-reading
Review: This is the kind of book that one must revisit at least once a year. The first time I read it, I closed the book with a feeling of awe and enlightenment at the final revelations and lectures of Morrie. Mitch Albom's historical record of an amazing teacher's final months and final struggle with a dibilatating disease showed sensitivity and bravery rarely found in fiction or non-fiction alike. But, in order for the lessons of the book to truly work their wonders, I believe I will reread this book every couple months, just to remind myself how special life really is.
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Summary: Required High School Reading
Review: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom should be required reading for every senior in high school. There is so much for them to learn from this book. To read from this book should be considered a privilege. As parents we should be shamed by the shallowness of some of the current high school reading material. Thank you Mitch Albom for unselfishly sharing with all the world.
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Summary: Morrie's lesson to us all: Seize the Day!
Review: My mentor, Karey Tompkins Pine, one day was telling me about this book she was reading - "Tuesdays with Morrie" - and was saying how incredibly touching it was. When she was done with the book, she gave it to me and strongly encouraged me to read it. Once I began to read it, I could not take my eyes off the pages. I felt as though reading about Morrie's life and the influence he had on Mitch, was a totally inspiring experience. The biggest lesson I learned from reading this book is to Seize the Day - make the most out of each and every moment we have in our lives, by living to the fullest. Morrie certainly lived to the fullest, and passed that important lesson onto his students and those he knew. I am grateful that my mentor, Karey, gave me this book to read because it makes the meaning of it all even more profound. I strongly recommend mentors sharing this book with their mentees.
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Summary: Mitch & Morrie In All Their Glory
Review: I have read this insightful real life story several times. After 144 weeks on the NY Times Bestseller list, it has made #1 this week. And I imagine Morrie is up there smiling as he whispers..."When you get to this point...and you will..." One of his favorite ways of relaying inspirational advice to live by. Mitch Albom, a sports writer, has penned a simplistically heartfelt book about rediscovering his college mentor. After 20 years he happens to see Morrie on "Nightline" speaking of his dying. His bouts with Lou Gerhigs disease. With only one visit in mind, Mitch ends up visiting every Tuesday until Morrie's eventual death. To me, this is a get back to basics life survival manual. Reminding us all "death ends a life, not a realtionship". Be good to those around you now, let the little things go. And grow, continue to grow. Thank you for your interest & comments--CDS
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Summary: For those who love "Morrie"... try "Mountain City"
Review: I read "Morrie" a couple of years ago and found it to be very good. As a retired teacher and coach, it's understandable I'd find Morrie's final lessons of interest. Still, I've wondered at the incredible longevity of the book on the bestseller lists. It's very good; so are many other less heralded and far less successful books. One I encountered recently, on the New Arrivals shelf in the public library, is "Mountain City" by Gregory Martin. The cover appealed to me as did the title - I love mountains. Perusal told me it was the true story of the 33 modern day residents of Mountain City, Nevada, a nearly dead old mining town tucked up near the Idaho border. The author is the nephew of the Basque family that owns the general store serving the town and nearby ranches and an Indian reservation. Often he visits the town and his extended family there, especially his grandparents, to whom the book is dedicated. He has helped out in the store since boyhood. He knows all the people of this remote area; he knows the history of their families and the town. The book is comprised of those stories. As a result, it starts a little slowly. Ordinary lives are like that. But gradually you develop enormous interest in, and respect for, these simple but extraordinary people. They are old. All the young are gone; only the author, a visitor in his 20s, and his uncle, who is in his 40s, are under 50. With Mitch Albom's book, you knew from the first how it would "come out." With Mountain City, the sadness at the end is almost shocking, but then you realize its inevitablity. This is real life; these are real people. You close the book with enormous respect for Gregory Martin and this tribute he has written to his family, their neighbors, and this far away but oh so admirable community. So, if you liked "Morrie," I urge you to give "Mountain City" a try. It may never gain more than a tiny fraction of the readership of "Morrie," but to me it is an even better, more touching and moving tribute of a young person to the old.
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Summary: Just the right length
Review: Several readers have said, "I wish the book was longer." But anything longer, and the charm would have gone. Perhaps they may have wanted more details about how the dying professor had applied his various counsels in his life. There's a sense of that in some places (as with his children) but not in others. However, what really matters if one gets something out of this book that strikes a chord,and applies it to one's own life.
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Summary: Life is all about seeing it with the two sides of a coin...
Review: "Tuesdays with Morrie" is probably the best book ever written about how it is to live and value life while we are still at its peak. It brought tears to my eyes as I realized that life shouldn't be wasted nor taken for granted. Life should be given more meaning with our everyday actions, thoughts and feelings. The people we cross paths with everyday should be given importance for we may never pass this way again. The day to day experiences of living should be reviewed to fully appreciate the blessings and the little things that come along. As a student learning what life is, the book gave me a new insgiht on how it is to live life to the fullest.
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Summary: Short but Sweet
Review: Endearing booklet about a yuppie sportswriter in a mild midlife crisis who rediscovers his sociology professor from Brandeis, a sweet old man whose charisma has also attracted Ted Koppel and Nightline to witness the professor's last days as he succombs to ALS. The author makes weekly pilgimages to receive fatherly affection and sage advice from his expiring mentor, consisting of simple truisms made more poignant by the progress of the old man's disease, and the imminence of his demise. I lost my cynicism about the length of the book, and its price, when I learned in the afterward that the book was Morrie's idea, and that the advances helped pay medical bills. It's a pretty puny dose of chicken soup, but at the Amazon price it makes a nice gift because its easy to read and carries a warm, loving message.
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Summary: Another Amusing Aardvark
Review: When you flip a book open, and the first line which catches your eye is "Before you learn how to live, you must learn how to die," you know that poor man's psycho babble is about to spill forth and that you should quickly abandon ship. This book has been an incredible seller for about three years, so obviously a lot of people are finding it useful, but I'm 28 years old and learning how to die isn't what I'm looking for at the moment. Thanks anyway Mitch.
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