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.
I don’t usually read books from the best sellers or top 10 list, I tend not to be a sheep, reading completely different stuff from an eclectic range of genres.
My bookshelves are filled with hardcore hacking tomes, fantasy, sci-fi, biographies, crime books, martial arts manuals, health and philosophy books and so on.
For once the last few months when I was traveling so frequently I decided to devour some of the tops picks, the best sellers..
The first I chose was this, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom got famous with his previous book Tuesdays with Morrie, another massive hit. I might read that too given time.
It’s a cute story, it’s easy to read and it’s enjoyable. It’s well paced, not patronising and kind of sweet in a non-sickly way.
Really though it’s the same old tale, what goes around comes around, karma and all that but told in a slightly different way.
Definately worth a read, easy to pick up and finish in one shot.
It’s not ground-breaking, or fantastic, but it’s good. It’s beauty is in its simplicity, yeah there’s pages of cliches, but its straightforward it’s not pretending to be artsy or intellectual or bourgeois.
It is nice to read a book now and then that is just easy to read and enjoyable.
Worth a try, I give it a good solid 7/10 – A good one to put on the xmas list for people you care about.
i fall in love with mitch albom because of this! 😀
Good book, ending sucks.
Have you read Tuesdays with Morrie?
latest book for one more day is teh ons too. can cry one.
Gave one of these once upon a Christmas.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Wishing you nothing but the best …
Wishing you a blessed Christmas in advanced!
Please drink responsibly.
Merry Xmas ST. 🙂
The five people I would like to meet in heaven are:
Gandhi
Genghis Khan
Garfield
Gandalf
Graham Taylor – I dont want to meet him on earth, do I not like that.
Yours gratefully,
Prof Scrub
https://www.scrubbingup.com/blogs/profscrub/blog.asp
On an unrelated note,
MErry Christmas to you, ST !!
EF: Not yet, but I might check it out.
Chen: Hehe cool will look out for that too..
Prof Scrub: Interesting choices, and all G’s
earl-ku, Matthew, Dabido and Slinky: Thanks! Merry Xmas to you guys too, going to update now, Streamyx was down for past 8 days..
i think Tuesdays with Morrie is a much better book than the 5 people you meet in heaven. i bought tuesdays with morrie for a best friend who has terminal disease to boost her moral. she said it truely helped her too. 🙂 you should definitely read it.
nevertheless thanks shaolin tiger!
i got the book and truly enjoyed it, i dont think one should compare an author’s present and previous works.
a man’s honey is another’s poison, the sentiments that he was trying to convey in different books are not similar.
id feel this is one of his good one.
cheers
Pinky: Will have to check that out.
myba7p: Really glad you enjoyed it, will try to review some other books soon if I can get back into reading.