The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0751536822 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0751536822 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Plum-crazy of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 2/18/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, February 18, 2021
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?"
This was certainly a quick, but good, read!
I liked the idea of Eddie meeting 5 people in heaven to help him understand his life - especially as they weren't they weren't the people he would have expected.
I didn't find the book to be as emotional as I was expecting (I needed a tissue at the end of Tuesdays with Morrie..sniff!) although all Eddie's encounter were touching....especially the final one.
This was certainly a quick, but good, read!
I liked the idea of Eddie meeting 5 people in heaven to help him understand his life - especially as they weren't they weren't the people he would have expected.
I didn't find the book to be as emotional as I was expecting (I needed a tissue at the end of Tuesdays with Morrie..sniff!) although all Eddie's encounter were touching....especially the final one.
Journal Entry 2 by Plum-crazy at The Community Library on Broomfield Road in Fixby, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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