The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Summary: Must Read
Review: Regardless of your thoughts on the after death experience this little book will give you a wonderful feeling regarding the importance of your life before death. Read it, then think and grow.

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Summary: A Must Read
Review: This book is a must-read! It really shows you that there is meaning to everyone's life and makes you believe that things do happen for a reason! It is a comforting view on what heaven could be like!

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Summary: Spellbinding book
Review: Mitch Albom creates a masterful book about the afterlife of a war vet, Eddie, who dies while trying to save a small girl at the amusement park where he does maintenance. The book takes you through the five people who Eddie meets on his way to heaven to help him understand the purpose of his life. While Eddie believes that his life has had no purpose, he is slowly with each person he meets, shown why his life turned out the way it did. From issues with his father, to the lose of his wife, Eddie learns how each event and life experience influenced his life. While Eddie knows some of the people he meets on his journey, others he has never met. However, they were touched or touched his life in some way which he had never realized.
I found that this book was hard to put down. The concept that people you never know affect your life but you never know it makes you think. An old man who dies with no family and no money, he has a story to tell and Eddie's story could be his. It's worth the time to sit back, relax and learn about the life of Eddie the maintenance guy.

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Summary: Beyond Compare
Review: It is always difficult to compare books, especially good books. The very definition of quality writing lays in its uniqueness. So I hesitate to compare "THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN" with other books of caliber in the line of "THE DA VINCI CODE" or "MY FRACTURED LIFE", but I will definitely endorse it as being of equal stature. Yet I reiterate my stress that it, as with all fine books, is totally unique and can be compared only based on quality not substance.

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Summary: A Touching Story.
Review: A delightful guick read. Very touching & kind of sad. Enjoy.

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Summary: A story that will truely make you think.
Review: What a wonderful story! I could not put it down. I read this in one afternoon and was sad to see it end. This story will make you wonder the five people you will meet in heaven. I will pass this book on to everyone in my life. I cried mostly through the book, some happy tears some sad. The last chapter is definatly an eye opener!

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Summary: Delightful, heart warming story
Review: This quick read, about 2 hours, will delight the reader with a tale of life and after-death that fills the heart with joy and provides peace by reaffirming the soul when life seems an ill-spent monotony of wasted time, missed fortunes and what-ifs. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I am certain the reader will also. In the same club as "Balzak and the young chinese seamstress". Enjoy.

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Summary: poignant and beautiful
Review: an awe inspiring book that I desperately needed to read. So much has happened in my life. One of which was abuse. I have had the "why me" feeling for years.Recently I bought this book and Nightmares Echo. I think it was a higher power that talked me into getting The Five people you Meet in Heaven...I bought Nightmares Echo because I thought it would mirror my life. It did, it was everything I had hoped it would be. The Five people you Meet in Heaven...gave me hope. Gave me a reason to let go of the past. Read this book if you do nothing else

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Summary: Profound truths, and reminders, come alive through Eddie
Review: The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a treasure that will resonate with readers of all faiths. Reading the book from the perspective of an Orthodox Jew, I found the concepts it triumphs to be peferctly harmonious with my faith's teachings of humanity's interconnectedness, the monumental significance of our deeds -no matter how simple they might seem-, the far reaching ramifications of all our interactions, and that nothing happens by chance. (Judaism calls this phenomenon Divine Providence.) All these profound truths, and more, come alive through the life of Eddie, an elderly worker at the amusement park of Ruby Pier. We have much to learn from Eddie's life, to inculcate the lessons he learns from the "Five People" into our own.

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Summary: Fun and insightful.
Review: Mitch Albom once again focuses us on basic truths of life. He does it in a delightful way, telling a story of a man who thinks his life has been a waste and finds out there is much more to life than fulfilling grand goals.

This book will move and delight the reader. It also will give one insights into how the normal everyday life we lead is packed with meaning.