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Summary: Deep Thought
Review: I read "The Five People You'll Meet in Heaven" in one night. It is a simple story that sparks deep thought of our own so called simple lives. I am a religion teacher and I plan on using this book as required reading for my students. We all at some point think our lives are small or possibly pointless but we learn at some point that our life no matter how small has in some way affected another person's life whether it be for the good or for the bad. We all need to take a step back and think how our actions affect others and vice versa. A wonderful book about mortality, love and the value of life.
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Summary: Thank Heaven for this author!
Review: "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" is another beautiful novel written by the bestselling author of "Tuesday's with Morrie," Mitch Albom. He tells us of "the secret of heaven:that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." Here we are in Eddie's heaven - the 83 year old war veteran dies trying to save a little girl from a falling cart at Ruby Point amusement park. In heaven he meets five people who explain his earthly life to him. They may be good friends, family members, or total strangers - or so he may think they are strangers. But Eddie learns that what he had thought was a waste of life was not only one human being's life, but also how it affects others in the world, what people mean to each other, and how one act of kindness can produce hatred and the opposite too. This book was truly an inspiration - it was simple but sweet and all to the point! I thought this book definitely had a much more POSITIVE outlook on life, even though it is about dying and death. Whereas in Tuesday's With Morrie, I felt it was more about coming to terms with the negative "ending." "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" is an outstanding novel that told me how endings are also beginnings, and how they too can be positive. Earthly life may end, but the heavens bring you - and those around you - to peace. A MUST READ - for anyone with an open heart!
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Summary: Simply profound
Review: I will start by saying yes, this is a simple book about a very simple life. Maybe that in itself makes it seem like perhaps this should be a bore, or a trite thing, but look deeper. This book can be the story of any of us. Eddie is the star in this one, a man who needs his eyes opened to the strength of the cords that bind humanity. Not one life is lived that doesn't touch another very deeply, either in a bad or good way. Simple ideas like this have harsh critics because frankly, we want the glamour of great tragedy or utter triumph in life. But do read this book if you understand the necessity of probing our relative fragility and connectedness as human beings. It's the simplest lessons that are hardest to learn. Just ask Eddie.
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Summary: Quick Read - Good Point of View
Review: Interesting book - a very fast read, I read it in 3 hours. Pretty straight forward as it shows how easily we often dismiss people in our lives. The book lives up to the title - the guy dies, goes to heaven, and meets five people. I found the true meaning of the book was not necessarily the main character's struggles, but the fact that each of us is a force in more lives than we ever thought. Is this a re-telling of A Wonderful Life? Not quite, but it's worth the read and smile.
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Summary: A Voyage inside Heaven
Review: The book The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a touching tale of a man and his journey to heaven. While he is in heaven Eddie (who the story is about) meets five people whos paths he crossed. When he is done learning how his life was affected by this person, he learns a lesson. Overall I really enjoyed this book. I thought the book had a great ending and had many details. When i first started this book i couldn't put it down. Thsi book really helped me put my own religious beliefs into perspective. I would recomend this book to people of all ages.
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Summary: teaches a broad new perspective
Review: i read my brother's "tuesday with Morrie", and somehow, cried like 4 times. the book is filled with inspiration and new thoughts of how this weak professor can still smile on his last days.
I immediately bought this book and finish it in a day. its just amazing. Basically its about this old man who feel insignificant about his life, when suddenly he knew how much he affect certain people's life when he got to heaven. I dont wanna spoil the surprise and stuff like that. so just read it obn ur own!!
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Summary: Heaven -- and Morrie
Review: I bought this book because I loved Tuesdays with Morrie, the author's first book. Morrie, an elderly college professor, stricken with a Lou Gherig's disease gave his best till the end. Morrie is an inspiration to us all and his memory lives on. The Five people You Meet in Heaven basically asks us to say what we need to say to those we love and respect. A simple message, not nearly as touching as the message in the author's first book. I recommend Optimal Thinking-How To Be Your Best Self to obtain the simple thinking style that Morrie used to make the most of every situation -- including his darkest moments. I recommend The Five People with the proviso that you do not have the same expectations that you had from reading Morrie.
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Summary: Great Read - Share with Friends
Review: I found this book not only entertaining but enlightening. It really gives a great point of view - why we are where we are in life and how we are all connected. I'm going to have all my kids read it and am giving it as gifts to all my sibs and sib-inlaws. That's how good I think it is.
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Summary: Not like the first effort BUT a nice read
Review: Mitch Albom's first book was great. This, on the otherhand was not. There were no nuggets of wisdom and thus it is a different book than Tuesdays With Morrie. It is similar to Lovely Bones in a sense as it is only one's "interpretation" of the afterlife. I think we all may be judging Albom based on the type of book Tuesdays was and Five People was in a different vein by far.
As for a read - it is one you can devour in one sitting; a plane ride, an extended wait anywhere. It's not deeply thought provoking but it is some lightly interesting bubblegum for the mind.
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Summary: A Heavenly Read
Review: In the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," Mitch Albom has again proved himself to be a writer of depth and imagination. He makes the reader see how life is one big connection and why each of our lives do matter in the end. Even if we think of ourselves as ordinary, we are indeed extraordinary in the big picture. Albom has a fast, breezy style of writing. He clearly has another best-selling book on his hands. As a former sportswriter who covered events with you, Mitch, I wish you all the best.
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