The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | Inspirational and heart warming

The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | Entertaining about serious issues

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	The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom Hyperion, 2003 - 198 pages average customer review:based on 1581 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Inspirational and heart warming

This book was so wonderful - I even read it twice. It was truly inspirational and heartwarming. It encouraged me to reach out to my loved ones!

Terrific Read!!

Entertaining about serious issues

Of all issues you could make light or entertainment of, death is no easy task.
This book, in my opinion, succeeded.

It's an easy, fast read that goes through the classic revisiting your life after death story. It's just very well told. It's emotional without being overwhelming or overbearing, it's light and fun, and has a simple lesson, that is to love the little things people do for each other in life. Not depressing. Not heartbreaking. A light lecture on a sunday afternoon.

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Inspirational Read!

The Five People You Meet In Heaven tells the story of a man named Eddie, an 83 year old head maintenance person at an amusement park. The introduction of the story describes the setting of this amusement park. Then, the author, Mitch Albom, tells readers Eddie is just minutes away from his death. Now you may all be thinking "What kind of story is this, talking about death in the first paragraph?". Well, as the author puts it, death, what we think is the ending, is really a whole new beginning. This is certainly the case for Eddie. When he dies, he starts a whole new journey to find out his purpose in life.

In the story, Eddie, like many other ordinary people, thinks that his whole life is a waste. He thinks no one has affected his life and he hasn't done so to anyone else. After his death, he pays a visit to the five people that have affected his life most, and discovers how much he really affected the earth and the people in it.

Mitch Albom really delivers an eye opener with this one. For anyone who thinks they don't play a role in life, it really assures you that everyone has a purpose. With to-the-point writing, I found myself reading and reading just to find out what would happen next (which is something new for me). This book is definitely a page turner and I finished the book in a couple of days. I applaud Albom's writing style to make it quick and easy to understand, yet interesting and meaningful. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who just wants a quick read to make them feel good about themselves, or anyone who thinks they need a little reassurance.

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Don't Let The Literary Snobs Tell You Otherwise....

This book, as well as the film, was nothing short of literary magic. Simple & cuts straight to the heart. Despite some of the negative reviews I've read from those who can only be described as literary snobs, this book has earned EVERY star of the 5 I have given it and I don't hand out 5 stars easily. Wishful thinking in re: to what awaits us in the afterlife? Perhaps. Yet, who can deny that the "mysteries of life" are best left undiscovered. We are all here for a purpose...a reason...a journey. And Mitch captures that quite beautifully from start to finish. I am a better person for having read this book. And my parting wish is that others are left with the same sentiment. The world would be a better place for it. Standing ovation for Mitch Albom. You left me with tears of emotion streaming.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

As a high school student, reading has become something done only when a teacher assigns it. Mitch Albom's novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven was a refreshing piece of literature that I was not forced to read. His message is something that I will carry with me for a very long time. The novel was not only a page turner, but it was meaningful reading as opposed to some of the other mindless reading that I have done in the past. It makes the reader think about the affect that they might have on a person that may have passed away, as well as the affects we might have on others before we die.
By no means was it a morbid book about death or a manual to tell people how to get into heaven. The book was about a man who died on his 83rd birthday in an attempt to save the life of a young girl. When he got to heaven five people were waiting for him, so they could explain his life on earth to him. Albom also used beautiful imagery to describe Eddie's journey through earth and heaven. As I finished the book, it left me wondering who and what I may have an affect on, as well as who may have had an affect on me.
I have yet to meet a person who has read this book and not had great things to say about it. I too feel as though everyone should read this book in order for them to realize that life on earth is just a small part of a big picture. The author showed this idea with great success. The Five People you Meet in Heaven, is a prime example of the saying "big things come in small packages" because within the contents of the small book, a huge massage was being portrayed.

Malaika Merid

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