Customer Reviews
I spent a few hours with Morrie - I wasn't dissapointed - By: Sterile, 07 Dec 2008 
A nice little read at only 192 pages it wasn't a slog to get through. I was moved by the patience & compassion of both Morrie & Mitch, the latter who boarded an airplane every week from Michigan to Boston to see his old professorin the last months of Morrie's life.
I have to say that I stayed dry eyed throughout, but was left with lumpin my throat. This book was originally copyrighted some 11 years ago but it's only relatively recently that it's come to the attention of the masses.
Morrie didn't want to be forgotten after his death & so Albom wrote about his time, untill the death of his old teacher. Albom didn't just write about his Tuesdays with Morrie but about his life as a child & young adult too. Nice tale considerately written.
Worthwhile reminder of obvious life lessons - By: Mr X, 20 Oct 2008 
I did like this book a fair bit.
I think that it summarises important, but admittedly obvious, life lessons & sometimes re-stating the obvious to people with busy lives is a very worthwhile exercise. I disagree with other reviewers who have said that the book is badly written; I assume that the author has writtenin the style he has to make the book as accessible to as many as possible. There are many books around whose style is so dry & academic that, whilst they contain great ideas, they are so complicatedin the way they are expressed that the idea is often lost.
That said, I agree that the book does no more than introduce fairly well known ideas of how to live. It does not dwell on them & I feel it would have benefitted from slightly longer chapters on fewer subjects. Also it makes the assumption that everyone has material security which is sometime a wrong assumption to make; it is all very well trying to sort out your spiritual well-being but that will be a far more difficult task if you don't have anywhere to live & no money for example. However, the book is aimed at a Western audience primarily & thnakfully most of us have met the lower of Maslow's (?) hierarchy of needs (physical & financial security etc) so Morrie is very right to criticise society's culture of 'keeping up with the Joneses' (as the English say!).
Overall a short interesting book which does remind us of some important truths. And Morrie was certainly an inspiring individual!
I'm Impressed! - By: edrm, 16 Sep 2008 
Morrie was mentally strong, though he suffered from the terminal disease, ALS(=amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), I'd say. He was eager to tell the meaning of life to his ex-student, Mitch Albom, who is also the author of Tuesday's With Morrie. I would only worry about my terminal disease,if I werein Morrie's shoes. I mean, all I could do would be to be apathetic or pessimistic about my future. " The truth is once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." - that'd be the last thing I could say.
Certainly, it WAS sad that Morrie passed away because he was respected by lots of his students & graduates. However, every Tuesday when Morrie told Mitch the meaning of life must be very precious memories for Mitch, that's for sure!
For when you need to change pace a little. - By: Helen Simpson, 31 Jul 2008 Although this book doesn't tell us anything we don't already know, it never does any harm to be reminded from time to time. It's a heartwarming & truthful account of a friendship between an older manin the last months of his life & a younger man who has always been inspired by him.
We're reminded of the importance of caring for one anotherin a world where we simply don't take time often enough (sometimes never!) to tell people how much we love & appreciate them.
It doesn't shy away from the 'ugly' side of illness & death which people wonder & worry about but hardly ever discuss. It's only human to be scared & to have self pity but we learn how Morrie turned his negative emotions into positive ones, & fear into acceptance & inner peace.
I found 'Tuesdays With Morrie' a refreshingly honest account of illness. Instead of being depressing it was insightful & moving.
One of my favorite "Alboms" - By: Sarah H., 20 Jun 2008 Face it: this book is never going to be a classic, but it does have some immediate appeal to the world at large mainly because people are looking for hope, especially today. It's a quick read & I enjoyed it. If you've seen the movie, you've pretty much seen the book. I do have to say that it inspired me to get out & do morein the community I live in--sometimes this worked out, sometimes it did not. The point was, I learned for "doing" & the book helped me get into that frame of mind. I've read the other Albom books & this is by far his best. Second on my list would be "The Five People You Meetin Heaven."
