The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The story follows Eddie, a grizzled war veteran, into the afterlife after his tragic death. Instead of finding a lush Garden of Eden, he meets five people who will explain to him his earthy life. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife--and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.
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super quick read. enjoyed this for the most part, but am always turned off when god comes into the picture.
Really makes you appreciate life and helps you understand that everyone around you, if you pay enough attention, has a story to tell.
Sometimes I have a perverse aversion to reading books that become massive bestsellers; I hate to admit it, but it's probably just writerly envy. So years after Mitch Albom published this book I finally read it, and it was wonderful. I shouldn't have waited so long, especially as Albom had proved his abilities with Tuesdays with Morry, which I had read many years earlier and found to be moving and memorable.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Albom takes us on a journey that intersperses scenes from the Earthly life of Eddie, who never managed to rise above a job as an amusement park maintenance man, with his celestial life in Heaven, where he meets the five people whose lives he changed, and most of whom take him by total surprise by what they reveal.
Comparisons with "It's a Wonderful Life" are frequent, and with good reason. When he dies on his 83rd birthday, Eddie is sour about life. Too long a widower, father to no children, Eddie's life is simple and lacks depth. But as Albom shows, even the simple goodness of an amusement park maintenance man can have far-reaching effects.
A quick and lovely read.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Albom takes us on a journey that intersperses scenes from the Earthly life of Eddie, who never managed to rise above a job as an amusement park maintenance man, with his celestial life in Heaven, where he meets the five people whose lives he changed, and most of whom take him by total surprise by what they reveal.
Comparisons with "It's a Wonderful Life" are frequent, and with good reason. When he dies on his 83rd birthday, Eddie is sour about life. Too long a widower, father to no children, Eddie's life is simple and lacks depth. But as Albom shows, even the simple goodness of an amusement park maintenance man can have far-reaching effects.
A quick and lovely read.
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