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Summary: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Review: Great book!
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Summary: Quick and Thoughtful
Review: A quick and insightful book that will make you stop and take stock. Certainly not as emotionally provocative as Tuesday's with Morrie, but if taken in a greater context, has life lessons for any one of us. A kind and peaceful message. I enjoyed it.
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Summary: ~NICE GIFT BOOK~
Review: Touching story of Eddie whose life has been centered around an amusement park. While trying to save a little girl from harm, Eddie dies and goes to heaven where he meets five important people who he knew or didn't know in his life but who were an important part.Nice book for a quiet afternoon ~ gives inspiration that a person's life is important, no matter how mundane it is. There were several endearing passages throughout the book which make the reader sit up and ponder.
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Summary: That's how you ended this?
Review: I was hooked line and sinker, through the first four people in Heaven, but what a weak ending. The book would have been better if it were called The Four people you meet in heaven, and we just left it at that. I loved this book right up until the part when it, no pun intended, - died.
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Summary: Endearing
Review: Albom's book, although a secular view of Heaven, is possibly one of the most beautiful ideas presented in years. This book is timeless and will be enjoyed for generations! Albom writes poingantly the details of Eddie's encounter with his precious wife and her lesson for him "take the bitter with the sweet," as he travels through that "pocket" of Heaven. The five different people and pockets in Heaven don't just contain happy, golden, sweet little lessons. Eddie receives some difficult information during his travels in Heaven which leave you wondering until the very end if Eddie did in fact save the little girl or not. It could have been either way which I found captivating. You travel through this life on earth and you don't always know the effect your encounters have on the lives you touch or paths you cross and sadly enough, every cause does have an effect. Mitch Albom did a steller job on this beautiful book and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone. Thank you Mitch Albom for sharing your "Eddie" with us.
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Summary: This will be put on my shelf of books to be read again.
Review: "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". I can't recommend it enough. I read it straight through and cried all through the book, but then I cry easy. Eddie's father kind of reminded me of mine. A friend also read it, loved it, but couldn't figure out why I would cry. You will walk away from this book feeling good.
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Summary: A touching story
Review: In the hands of a lesser writer, this book could have been way too saccharine and over-done. While I would not consider it a classic, I think Mitch Albom has done a fine job with this story. This is basically the story of Eddie,an elderly man who thinks his life has been meaningless. Eddie passes away and we get to see how his life really did have meaning and how he unknowingly touched those around him. Sort f like It's a Wonderful Life even though Jimmy Stewart didn't die in that one.I thought this book was well-written and very touching.I think that people have become so jaded that we can't always see the simple beauty in a story like this. You need to have an open mind and an open heart to really enjoy this book. I highly recommend it
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: I had been given a gift certificate and looked at everything for weeks. Nothing grabbed me. Nothing begged me to read it. And then one night I found this book. It sat on the shelf very innocent and yet there was something about it that made me just have to have it. And so my journey began. I was hooked from the moment I read the first chapter. All I wanted to do was read and find out more about Eddie and more about the people he touched. The premise of the book was very creative and Mr. Albom was able to pull it off with ease. Reading the book flowed much like the rides at the amusement park where Eddie worked. You see heaven and then a twist or a turn of the rollercoaster cart and you look at Eddie's birthdays. Amazing. But probably the most amazing thing about this book is the depth of such a simple life. This is a book that makes you think while you are reading it, but it goes way beyond that; it makes you think long after you have finished it. I feel a sense of connectedness that I did not feel before - hokey, maybe, but, nonetheless true. If you read nothing else this year, read this book. It surely will change your perspective on life and make you think.
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Summary: I think I'll go to hell
Review: While easy-to-read and not poorly written, Mitch Albom's latest effort, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is simply a twist on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and has a difficult time standing up against the classic. The main character, and deceased, Eddie, is initiated into heaven by visiting with five folks whose lives were touched or whose lives touched him. Strangers and loved ones alike appear to show Eddie the meaning of the life that he lived and to explain how we are all interconnected. Unfortunately, the tone of this book is spiritually stunted and although the book takes place in "heaven," Albom is not brave enough to identify Eddie's own spiritual identity and/or beliefs nor does the reader ever see or meet a divine creator or being. Instead, Albom hits the reader over the head with his earthly "insights" which are rote and predictable - be good, find joy, don't underestimate yourself, blah, blah, blah. Perhaps this would make a nice, short, morality play for pre-teens but it is not a book that will change anyone's life.
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Summary: Something to Think About
Review: The book was an easy read but it didn't grab your attention. I was on vacation on a cruise and it was the only thing I had to read so it forced me to finish the book. It did give you something to think about. The book had more impact on be after I read it. It made me stop and think about all the people I come in contact and how unkowningly I touched their lives. I've read better books on this subject.
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