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Books : Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by: Mitch Albom List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.44 You Save: £2.55 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780751529814 ISBN: 0751529818 Label: Time Warner Paperbacks Manufacturer: Time Warner Paperbacks Number Of Pages: 212 Publication Date: July 24, 2003 Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks Studio: Time Warner Paperbacks Sales Rank: 1781 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - I spent a few hours with Morrie - I wasn't dissapointedA nice little read at only 192 pages it wasn't a slog to get through. I was moved by the patience and compassion of both Morrie and Mitch, the latter who boarded an airplane every week from Michigan to Boston to see his old professor in the last months of Morrie's life. I have to say that I stayed dry eyed throughout, but was left with lump in my throat. This book was originally copyrighted some 11 years ago but it's only relatively recently that it's come to the attention of the masses. Morrie didn't want to be forgotten after his death and so Albom wrote about his time, untill the death of his old teacher. Albom didn't just write about his Tuesdays with Morrie but about his life as a child and young adult too. ... Read More: Rating:  - Worthwhile reminder of obvious life lessonsI did like this book a fair bit. I think that it summarises important, but admittedly obvious, life lessons and sometimes re-stating the obvious to people with busy lives is a very worthwhile exercise. I disagree with other reviewers who have said that the book is badly written; I assume that the author has written in the style he has to make the book as accessible to as many as possible. There are many books around whose style is so dry and academic that, whilst they contain great ideas, they are so complicated in the way they are expressed that the idea is often lost. That said, I agree that the book does no more than introduce fairly well known ideas of how to live. It does not dwell on them and I feel it would ... Read More: Rating:  - I'm Impressed!Morrie was mentally strong, though he suffered from the terminal disease, ALS(=amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), I'd say. He was eager to tell the meaning of life to his ex-student, Mitch Albom, who is also the author of Tuesday's With Morrie. I would only worry about my terminal disease,if I were in Morrie's shoes. I mean, all I could do would be to be apathetic or pessimistic about my future. " The truth is once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." - that'd be the last thing I could say. Certainly, it WAS sad that Morrie passed away because he was respected by lots of his students and graduates. However, every Tuesday when Morrie told Mitch the meaning of life must be very precious memories for Mitch, that's for sure! Rating: - For when you need to change pace a little.Although this book doesn't tell us anything we don't already know, it never does any harm to be reminded from time to time. It's a heartwarming and truthful account of a friendship between an older man in the last months of his life and a younger man who has always been inspired by him. We're reminded of the importance of caring for one another in a world where we simply don't take time often enough (sometimes never!) to tell people how much we love and appreciate them. It doesn't shy away from the 'ugly' side of illness and death which people wonder and worry about but hardly ever discuss. It's only human to be scared and to have self pity but we learn how Morrie turned his negative emotions into positive ones, and ... Read More: Rating: - One of my favorite "Alboms"Face it: this book is never going to be a classic, but it does have some immediate appeal to the world at large mainly because people are looking for hope, especially today. It's a quick read and I enjoyed it. If you've seen the movie, you've pretty much seen the book. I do have to say that it inspired me to get out and do more in the community I live in--sometimes this worked out, sometimes it did not. The point was, I learned for "doing" and the book helped me get into that frame of mind. I've read the other Albom books and this is by far his best. Second on my list would be "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." |
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