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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
 

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

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... (read more)

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copymadan
  • Rated 4 stars

“Amazing writing style and great sensitivity, Mitch Albom blends them both in this perspective-changing book. It takes the fear factor out of death... and gives it its due place - as a part of life (as he says... all endings are also beginnings). The pages are sprinkled with some real gems. For instance, "...they were drawn to him like cold hands to a fire". But what makes the book stand apart is its exploration of the the human psyche and how some people play a major part in shaping our...”

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1 of 1 members found this review helpful.
jmadigan
  • Rated 1 stars

“One of the great things about checking out audiobooks from the public library is that I can take a chance on something I normally wouldn't buy, and I end up loving it. And then, of course, there are the times I take a chance on something I wouldn't normally like and end up really hating it as predicted. See if you can guess which is the case here by the end of this review.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is about Eddie, an amusement park maintenance guy who dies and goes to...”

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  • Rated 3.905717 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “funny, this and Sam the Firefly, a classic story by P D Eastman, both came up on my comment line. Sam the Firefly is a great book that explores talent, responsibility sand freindship, too bad 5 people is neither as well written nor as meaningful....”

    posted 2 weeks ago ( | view 1 reply )
  • Kat?J

    kat?j said:

    “I loved this book! It was sad and makes you think about what will really happen to us if we die.”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • conjuredUp

    conjuredup said:

    “What a wonderful reminder of how important EACH and every life is to the collective.”

    posted 3 weeks ago
  • Jillian O

    jillian o said:

    “There is so much packed into this small, quick book!! It tells how you affect people around you and also that you can't live in anger because most of the time, you don't know the whole story!”

    posted 3 weeks ago
  • amieroo823

    amieroo823 said:

    “I loved it. I took it as airplane reading, and when I got to my final destination, I stayed up to finish it!”

    posted 4 weeks ago
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