The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Plot 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?" Personal Details Collection Status In Collection Index 10 Read It Yes Links Amazon US Product Details LoC Classification PS3601.L335F59 2003 Dewey 813/.6 more
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by Mitch Albom. ISBN13: 9780786868711. ISBN10: 0786868716. Published by HarperCollins Publishers. Edition: 03 Used
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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.... |
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ProductReviews81/100 (100 Reviews)
Recent Reviews
- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-08-2009
- Blah, ick, zzzzz
Unoriginal, boring, and lame. Two other reviewers nailed it on the head when they likened it to an after-school special and one of those horribly saccharine chain emails sent by older ladies. Avoid.
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-07-2009
- More Like One of Those Inspirational E-mails Your Mom Forwards To You
Five People You Meet In Heaven is a tale of life and death; and about the five people the main character meets in Heaven. The writing is horrible. The format is strange. The writer often has the skill of a high school teenager writing a...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-25-2009
- It is a good tale.
I read this book on the recommendation from a friend, and I am glad I did. I enjoyed the story. It makes you think about how/why "random" people can influence your life (and you can influence theirs). Interesting story!
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-01-2009
- Very depressing, NOT really something you should read
This book has a great title, but the story is based on a man who has a life that he really did not want and then dies goes to heaven and finds out who's lives he touched in a good and bad way. This book inspired me in the sense that I...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-25-2009
- It is a good tale.
I read this book on the recommendation from a friend, and I am glad I did. I enjoyed the story. It makes you think about how/why "random" people can influence your life (and you can influence theirs). Interesting story!
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-01-2009
- Not worth all the hype
This is a story about a guy who dies and meets five people in heaven yet one would easily be mislead into thinking that these are five people who offer some meaningful insight. Instead, each person follows a bland story formula about...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-08-2009
- Blah, ick, zzzzz
Unoriginal, boring, and lame. Two other reviewers nailed it on the head when they likened it to an after-school special and one of those horribly saccharine chain emails sent by older ladies. Avoid.
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