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Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.
Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Albom, newspaper columnist and radio broadcaster, is, of course, best known as the author of the astonishingly successful Tuesdays with Morrie (1997). This is his first novel. With an appropriately fable-like tone, Albom tells the story of Eddie, "an old man with a barrel chest." But for us, Eddie's story "begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun"--at Ruby Pier, an amusement park by the sea, where he spent most days, for despite his advanced years, he worked as a maintenance man on the rides. He dies on his eighty-third birthday trying to save a little girl from an accident. Eddie wakes up in heaven, where he is informed that "there are five people you meet in heaven. Each . . . was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth." And, not surprisingly, this is what the novel is about: Eddie coming to appreciate his 83 years of mortal life; the novel's "point" is that apparently insignificant lives do indeed have their own special kind of significance. A sweet book that makes you smile but is not gooey with overwrought sentiment. Brad Hooper
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"I keep you safe" - ich lese diese vier Worte und habe Tränen in den Augen.
Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, daß mich ein Buch emotional schon einmal so mitgenommen hat.
Obwohl das Buch gar nicht gut ist, sogar "miserabel", "flach" und die Hauptperson "ein Verlierer-Typ", habe ich mir sagen lassen, von jemandem, der was davon versteht, einem Literaturwissenschaftler.
Jetzt verrate ich ihnen, WAS an diesem Buch gut ist: der Raum in diesem Buch, der große Raum, der bleibt, das eigene Leben, die eigenen Ängste und Fehler hineinlegen zu können, sich neben die Hauptperson stellen zu können, genau so gut oder schlecht, genauso mittelmäßig zu sein, genauso das zu sein, was man wie er am meisten fürchtet, nämlich nach den eigenen Maßstäben nicht genug erreicht zu haben im Leben.....
.....um dann endlich, endlich das liebevolle, erlösende Lächeln zu ernten, auf das man sein ganzes Leben lang gewartet hat.
Darum ist dieses Buch gut.
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Good stories have a place in my mind and heart.This is one of the most beautiful books about man's pilgrimage through life. The plot is amazing. I hold that nobody can say for certain what his/her purpose in life is or whether ones' purpose had been achieved when the person dies. Still it is good for us to remember the troubles of our life, recollect the memories of things, judge the impact they had on those around us or on humanity as a whole, and determine whether we achieved what we've been trying to find out in life. Life's meaning is unveiled for us to understand in this book. This is a positively inspiring book. It reminds me of The Usurper and Other Stories, with a story on Hades where the narrator had to whisk of a living soul to the world beyond for judgment.
Overall, the style is unique and the writer is plain brilliant. The book deserves all the rave reviews it has been getting. I am glad mine is one of them.
Overall, the style is unique and the writer is plain brilliant. The book deserves all the rave reviews it has been getting. I am glad mine is one of them.
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The title and book concept have intrigued me since I first heard about the book. I don't know any religions that describe the experience in Heaven as beginning by meeting five people from your past life, so I took the book to be a parable rather than a literal attempt to describe Heavenly life. I was quite pleased (for the most part) with what I found. I recommend this book to anyone who will not feel like their religion is being cast in doubt by the book's premise.
Many self-help gurus encourage us to imagine our funeral service and what would be said about us. I think there's a lot of merit to that concept. Mr. Albom has added another important element to that concept: What were the unintended effects that others had on our lives and we on theirs? Cast in that light, even the most mundane life is suddenly filled with drama and greater significance. I hope Mr. Albom will consider writing a self-help book that allows us to think through the lessons of this book for our own lives.
To describe what happens in Heaven in the book would be to spoil the book for you . . . so I won't. I found the book constantly surprising and interesting, and a quick read. One of the underlying themes of the book is the need to be more accepting of one another . . . and the consequences of our actions. In that regard, I thought the story was weak only in developing the resolution of his relationship with one of his parents. Other than that flaw, I would have enthusiastically graded the book at five stars.
Let me quote the book's intriguing opening paragraph to give you a flavor of why you may want to read this book:
"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
I think that's the best opening for a book that I have read in many years. Much of the rest of the writing is just as good.
As I finished the book, I began to think about how my "failures" may have actually helped others to "successes." That was a new thought for me, and one that will make me act quite differently in the future. That was a great gift to receive from reading a single story.
Many self-help gurus encourage us to imagine our funeral service and what would be said about us. I think there's a lot of merit to that concept. Mr. Albom has added another important element to that concept: What were the unintended effects that others had on our lives and we on theirs? Cast in that light, even the most mundane life is suddenly filled with drama and greater significance. I hope Mr. Albom will consider writing a self-help book that allows us to think through the lessons of this book for our own lives.
To describe what happens in Heaven in the book would be to spoil the book for you . . . so I won't. I found the book constantly surprising and interesting, and a quick read. One of the underlying themes of the book is the need to be more accepting of one another . . . and the consequences of our actions. In that regard, I thought the story was weak only in developing the resolution of his relationship with one of his parents. Other than that flaw, I would have enthusiastically graded the book at five stars.
Let me quote the book's intriguing opening paragraph to give you a flavor of why you may want to read this book:
"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
I think that's the best opening for a book that I have read in many years. Much of the rest of the writing is just as good.
As I finished the book, I began to think about how my "failures" may have actually helped others to "successes." That was a new thought for me, and one that will make me act quite differently in the future. That was a great gift to receive from reading a single story.
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...einem wirklich Hoffnung gibt.
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An interesting book which makes you reconsider your own life.
I liked the book very much. It made me think of my own life and the decisions I've made so far.
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Also diese Hörcd muss man echt haben!
Das Buch ist schon so toll und jetzt anhören auch noch...
das is echt lieb.
Die ganze Geschichte. Lesen Sie weiter...
Das Buch ist schon so toll und jetzt anhören auch noch...
das is echt lieb.
Die ganze Geschichte. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. September 2009 von C. Mersich
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Grandioses Buch, flüssig & leicht verständlich geschrieben, inhaltlich schwer und sehr tiefgehend/traurig. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. September 2009 von Voxxx
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(Mitch Albom)
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(Mitch Albom)
I got the book from my English teacher. He told me that the topic of the book corresponds a little bit to 'P.S. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Oktober 2008 von Lilly
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Veröffentlicht am 25. April 2008 von Lene
Thouroughly satisfying
This is a quiet and rather simple book, but I found it thouroughly satisfying.
Even though at first I could not at all identify with Eddie or his simple and uninspired... Lesen Sie weiter...
Even though at first I could not at all identify with Eddie or his simple and uninspired... Lesen Sie weiter...
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