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

    

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Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his 'meaningless' life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: 'Why was I here?'

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