Tuesdays with Morrie (Hardcover)

by Mitch Albom | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385484518 Global Overview for this book
Registered by editorgrrl of New Haven, Connecticut USA on 8/29/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Monday, August 29, 2005
Hardcover with dust jacket bought at the thrift store to release. Subtitled An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. Inscribed on the first page:

January 2003
Dear David,
The holidays are a time for family. Since you are now part of mine, I want to share this book with you. As you will soon discover, 'Morrie hates lawyers.' And so my wish for you this holiday season is that you become the type of lawyer, that you help Yale become the type of law school, and, above all, that you become the type of person that would have caused Morrie to change his mind about us and our profession.
Love,
Rob

Update: I found another copy of this book inscribed by the same person in June 2006.

From Kirkus Reviews
Award-winning sportswriter Albom was a student at Brandeis University, some two decades ago, of sociologist Morrie Schwartz. Here Albom recounts how, recently, as the old man was dying, he renewed his warm relationship with his revered mentor. This is the vivid record of the teacher's battle with muscle- wasting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. The dying man, largely because of his life-affirming attitude toward his death-dealing illness, became a sort of thanatopic guru, and was the subject of three Ted Koppel interviews on Nightline. That was how the author first learned of Morrie's condition. Albom well fulfilled the age-old obligation to visit the sick. He calls his weekly visits to his teacher his last class, and the present book a term paper. The subject: The Meaning of Life. Unfortunately, but surely not surprisingly, those relying on this text will not actually learn The Meaning of Life here. Albom does not present a full transcript of the regular Tuesday talks. Rather, he expands a little on the professor's aphorisms, which are, to be sure, unassailable. "Love is the only rational act,'' Morrie said. "Love each other or perish,'' he warned, quoting Auden. Albom learned well the teaching that "death ends a life, not a relationship.'' The love between the old man and the younger one is manifest. This book, small and easily digested, stopping just short of the maudlin and the mawkish, is on the whole sincere, sentimental, and skillful. (The substantial costs of Morrie's last illness, Albom tells us, were partly defrayed by the publisher's advance). Place it under the heading "Inspirational.'' "Death,'' said Morrie, "is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.'' If that is so (and it's not a notion quickly gainsaid), this book could well have been called "The Art of the Deal.''

Journal Entry 2 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Sunday, September 4, 2005
Mailed to Woodinville, Washington, USA, through PaperbackSwap.

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