Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson Books

Pros: Extremely easy to read, lots of good thoughts minus all of the preachiness.
Cons: None.

Preamble
Over the past two months, I have been doing a lot of soul-searching for various reasons. For my entire life, I've struggled with the whole God/Religion thing and most recently, personal circumstances made me step back and take note...

Pros: Albom has a fine way with words, often compressing poignancy into a single, detailed sentence
Cons: Some of Morrie's musings come off as trite and corny

I came to Morrie Schwartz in a roundabout way. First, it was the undeniable presence of "Tuesdays With Morrie" on the New York Times bestseller list (113 weeks as of this writing). I’d heard about the book, but since it was on the non-fiction...

Pros: thought-provoking, humbling experience
Cons: no woman's perspective; Mitch's boss being understanding?

I liked this little book for none of the usual reasons. I think it is a primary reason why Albom wrote it, though. It made me wonder if there are such good teachers out there anymore. Do they have the time or inclination to teach a former student many...

Pros: A book with good intentions...
Cons: Bland, boring, childish in its approach.

This book is a true story and expresses views on life. These views belong to Morrie Schwartz, a retired college professor dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a chronic degenerative muscle disorder. (See below for more details of this affliction). Every ...

Pros: Touching, inspiring.
Cons: None

I recently wrote a review of a book by Mitch Albom called The Five People You Meet In Heaven. Since I read that book partly because of my appreciation for another book written by Mitch Albom called: Tuesday’s With Morrie I thought that I would also ...

Pros: Albom relates a moving story with compassion and skill.
Cons: The lessons aren't quite as life-changing as the hype would have you believe.

Mitch Albom was, by his own admission, a man who had his priorities wrong. Driven by his career, over-obsessed with money and forever putting off his vow to take it easy and start a family, he was the antithesis of the ideals he had held when he had ...

Pros: Might just your way of thinking
Cons: None

Now there is a story behind my discovering this book. I work in a small book shop, and last month a customer came in looking for this book. I couldn't find it on our Book Bank progamme, and so concluded that she had the wrong title. You wouldn't...

Pros: Warming, quick read
Cons: Author inserts himself too much for my liking

Some books are best read while sitting bolt upright in a red plastic booth at a café, a chipped white porcelain cup of coffee gripped between your fingers. When I read Stephen King, I want people around. People to give my heart a break from the vision of...

Pros: It short.
Cons: But short is neither an excuse nor a reason to write a book.

There are two thematic strains running loose in our literature and movies right now that I have recognized and given names to. They both center on the breakdown of the idealism of youth and have been recently injected into a series of films and books....

Pros: Inspirational, easy to read, provides you with important advice.
Cons: Occasionally sad to read.

Tuesdays With Morrie is an autobiography on the life of Mitch Albom. It's certainly a very different autobiography in a number of ways. It really doesn't concentrate much on Mitch's life before he revisited his old college professor,...

Pros: Forces the reader to choose whether he or she is going to live each day.
Cons: Misses the most crucial point when dealing with the topic of death.

It had been almost exactly a year since I had read my college roommate's copy of The Five People You Meet in Heaven when I read Tuesdays with Morrie. It was a Saturday, and I had just finished reading The Great Gatsby for the first ...

Pros: It is not often I can look to a book for self help. This is one of those times.
Cons: None

Each of us has no doubt had that one teacher that really meant a great deal to us, good or bad, for one reason or another. It could be that you worship at the church of Jeff Spicoli and exist for no other reason than to strike terror into the heart of...

Pros: Simply written for quick reading
Cons: I knew Morrie would die

It took me awhile to read Tuesdays with Morrie. I didn't even watch the TV version of the movie because I feared it would be a tear-jerker. The book is much more than a tug on our sympathies. The book is a lesson in life and what is important in the...

Pros: A guide to inner peace
Cons: Your life if you don't read this

As a major sports fan, I was pretty aware of who Mitch Albom was. He was one of those narcissistic guys on ESPN on Sunday morning who talked about sports but appeared to have never actually played any. I didn't have any real strong feelings about him...

Pros: Interesting Look Into A Man's Last Days
Cons: Can Get Too Heavy-Handed With Morrie's Messages

I received Mitch Alborn's Tuesdays With Morrie as a Christmas gift last year, and I didn't know what to say. I must have blinked and looked confused as I stared down at the thin little volume in my hands. Who was this Mitch Alborn? Who was Morrie?...