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  • I have been meaning to read this book for a while. This week the movie was on TV, so I picked it up. It was a quick read and it made me think. The book looks at what heaven might look like. When Eddie died he went to heaven and met five people that he affected or they affected him. I made me think a ... Continue

    I have been meaning to read this book for a while. This week the movie was on TV, so I picked it up. It was a quick read and it made me think. The book looks at what heaven might look like. When Eddie died he went to heaven and met five people that he affected or they affected him. I made me think about what may seem like a minor incounter or incident may actually change someone else's life. Once someone told me to do something nice for someone without them asking and necessarily knowing what you did. This book made me think of that and the book and movie Pay It Forward. I think this is a great concept which is not put into practise near enough.Quotesp. 196Lines formed...five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl anemed Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have herquestions answered--why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was whiskered old man, with a linen cap and crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part 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 in one.I think this quote sums up the whole book because it brings together the whole thing.Discussion questions1. What would your heaven look like?2. Has there been anyone in your life like the characters in this book?3. Who would you guess you would see in heaven if you died tomorrow?

    

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  • I never like Mitch Albom

  • The english version seems flows better than the Chinese one. I finished it really quickly but I never really like Mitch Albom. His books are all alike.

    

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  • I thought this book was so BORING! I couldn't force myself to pay attention for more than the first 20 pages or so.

    

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  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • Mitch Albom's books do a wonderful job of focusing in on what is important in this life.

    

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  • I received this as a gift from my erstwhile boss. I hate it when people say, "Gee, she likes to read! I'll buy her any old book!" This was so saccharine, I felt my teeth begin to ache. Yeuch! Truly awful dross.

    

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Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. 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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