I feel like a complete jerk because I did not like this book. First of all, if you really care about someone, be there before their end of days. Don't suddenly realize that they are important to you as they die. It had some nice moments, but it was very predictable. Narcissistic, money hungry writer discovers the meaning of life through dying mentor.

Frankly, I was more moved by Marley and Me...does this mean that I don't have a soul? ( )

When Albom found out that his beloved former professor was dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, he went to visit Morrie.

A single visit turned into regular sessions where Morrie Schwartz decided he had one more class to teach. As the disease progressed, Morrie became weaker but no less determined to share what he had learned throughout his life.

This book had a profound effect on me. A short and simple book, Tuesdays with Morrie reminded me why I became a teacher and inspired me to continue to make a difference in the lives of children.

Wise and wonderful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. ( )

Rather than finding this one as life-changing as many people whom I've spoken to about this book find, I find it predictable, and frankly a little like reading a self-help soup soul type book. I don't want to take anything away from Professor Schwart's viewpoints on life, because I think the world can use a lot more of him. I find the writing of the book a little too direct and simple. Simplistic. A little too much like a thesis, but without the insight of research. I think anyone who has read enough good books would find this one lacking a bit. Off the top of my head, Siddhartha is a much more interesting example of a book that journeys along the same line. The Alchemist is perhaps another. This book is worth reading if you are missing something in life, and not all that if you are chasing after a book that exemplifies the art of writing. ( )

A beautiful beautiful book. I can't say enough about it. Hard to get through at times only because it is so emotional. There are so many lessons to be learned from this book. I would say this is a book for everyone there is something in it for all of us. ( )

Großartiges kleines Buch!!: Dieses kleine Buch ist mir duch Zufall in die Hände gefallen und ich muss sagen, ich bin froh, dass ich es mitgenommen habe! Es ist für alle Menschen geschrieben, die etwas über das Leben lernen wollen.
Gefühl, Tiefgang, Weisheiten und manchmal auch etwas Humor. Und das Beste: Es ist eine wahre Geschichte, nichts Zusammengestricktes und Ausgedachtes. Das geht ans Herz und an den Verstand. Wenn das nicht lesenswert ist?
Absolut großartig!

1999

'An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson' says it all. The First book of Mitch Albom's I bought and in my opinion his best. A lovely read ( )

This book was recommended by a friend, and I felt obligated to read it. It was okay. I was a little disappointed because I had some preconceived notions of what I thought it was going to be before I read it. Regardless, Morrie gives a good outlook for life. ( )

This really could be a life changing read. Mitch Albom tells the story of the period of time he spent with his old tutor, Morrie, at the end of Morrie's life. Morrie is suffering from a deginerative terminal illness, so as you can imagine, the reading is tough in places - but, it is so enriching. Morrie's outlook and perspective on the world is one that we could all learn from. I normally mark the pages of books where there are interesting quotes - this book is covered in sticky tabs! If I could recommend one book that I think that everyone in the world should read, its this one, we could all learn so much. ( )

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Not my normal kind of reading, but it was very good. Kind of sappy, without being so - if hat makes any sense. The story is a younger man visiting with a dying older man, Morrie. Morrie's love of life transcends any stoicism in the face of death. ( )

Well, it's like nothing I've ever read before! The writing is economical, beautiful and insightful, all at the same time. I can't decide if it would work for a retiremnet group, or if it would depress them entirely.
I'll try some more of Albom's fiction soon anyway. ( )

An excellent book full of thoughtful insight and hope. ( )

Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom is the story of one man’s journey into death and another man being taught how to live by him. Morrie Schwartz, who was once a professor at Brandeis University, has been diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), and the book follows his last few months on this earth through the eyes of Mitch. Mitch is an old student of his, and has not spoken to his professor since they last said goodbye after graduation, sixteen years earlier. Mitch happened to be flipping through the channels one night when he saw his old professor on Nightline with Ted Koppel, and that moment changed his life forever.

After seeing Morrie on television, Mitch then gets in touch with him, and visits him. The visits become a regular thing, and are always on Tuesday’s, because as Morrie states “We’re Tuesday people.” During Mitch’s visits he is able to watch the disease progress over Morrie’s body, at first it seems as if he is uneasy about watching his professor die, but in the end he starts doing more things for him, like adjusting his pillows, massaging his feet, even helping him out of his chair, it just shows how much he grows with each visit.

Tuesday’s with Morrie is a wonderful story. Even though a man is dying he seems to only see the good in life and what life has to offer. He is kind-hearted, and takes on a task of teaching an old student one last time. The message of the book seems to be not to dread the little things in life, don’t spend so much time looking back on what you could have done differently. Look to the future for what you will do next, and live everyday to the fullest, because you never know when death will creep up on you.

One thing I noticed throughout the book was each Tuesday, Mitch would be reading the newspaper, and at least one of the stories had to deal with a sudden death. I thought that was interesting, especially after Morrie had said that you have to live each moment as if you will die in the next. I think the author put the stories in the book to show that. One was a mother shot her two kids and her husband, another was two boys were playing with their father’s gun, and shot each other. It shows that death has no remorse, and can strike anyone even the innocent, and not think twice about it.

This book relates to nursing because it shows the compassion that nurses really need to give their patients. When you are truly passionate about something whether it be your profession or a person, no matter what is going on in their lives you try not to take notice in the bad and only think about the good.

I also believe that this relates to nursing because Morrie talks about how to detach yourselves from your feelings. I know that there will be something’s in my nursing career that I will need to do this with. For instance I would love to work in the ER, and I know that if a trauma came in that was a young boy, I would need to detach myself from the feeling of sorrow, and just have to help my team to save this boy’s life. There will be no time for fear or remorse; I will just have to focus on the task at hand.

Tuesday’s with Morrie showed me that even after someone is gone their spirit will live on, whether it is through their teachings, old photographs, or just simply thinking about that person. When we have had such a strong teacher in our lives, and we take those teachings that they taught us and allow others to experience them, then their spirit will always live on. By retelling of stories we were once told, we show how much we loved and adored that person, because we were paying attention to them enough to recall information about things.

This was actually my second time reading this book, I had to read it for summer reading in high school, the summer I was going into 10th grade, however I read this book with a new version of myself. Originally when I read this I never really took anything away from it, I only did it because it was summer reading, I didn’t know that there was more meaning behind it.

Having matured quite a bit from the last time that I read this, I found that it was much more meaningful. I found myself really being able to relate to Mitch as he was telling the story. I remember watching my grandfather suffer a few years ago, and I didn’t really understand what I was supposed to do. Just sitting there with him watching him die didn’t appeal to me, it was too hard to watch someone so close to me wither away. Had I read this book a second time, I would have understood that I was keeping him company, and that all he wanted was someone to talk to and to hold his hand, so he wasn’t alone, but instead of doing that I would spend a few hours with him, and that was that. It was all I could bear.

At one point in the book, Morrie says to Mitch “ We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.” This made me immediately think of my parents. Before my parents divorced, we lived in this gorgeous house that all my friends called a mansion, we had 17+ acres of land, and we always had the top of the line things. It made people think that we were happy, but honestly my parents were masking the hurt and pain. They weren’t happy with eachother at all, but this sort of exterior made people believe that we were all happy inside.

After living in a broken home that was gorgeous for so long, I moved to Vermont into a small apartment with my boyfriend, and I have to say I was happier there than I ever was in that big house. We lived in an apartment that was smaller than my mother’s basement in the house she lives in now, we could barely afford food and only bought things with coupons or that was on sale, but because we were together, we were happy. We didn’t have any money, just enough to get by, but somehow we made it work.

I know several people who if they are unhappy will go out and do “retail therapy,” to make themselves feel better, but in the end they are still unhappy, and now have a bank account that is slowly depleting. People don’t seem to understand that the materialistic things in life aren’t what make like worth living. It’s the love and laughter and the people you grow old with that make it worth it. I know that if all I had were things cluttered everywhere, and no friends, I would not be happy. Sure I would have nice things, but I would have no one to share them with. Without friends and family, why would someone want to live? They would just be bitter, and not know the joys of what having people in your life can bring.

Morrie also says the following “They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves-so how can they know who they’re marrying.” I agree with this saying, to an extent. There is actually a line from a Broadway musical that I think sums this up very well. It’s from Rent; “You’ll never share real love, until you love yourself.” When Morrie said those words, it automatically makes me think of that line from Rent. I believe that this is only partly true, because sometimes it takes loving someone to love yourself. Looking into another person’s heart will show you the compassion that has always been lingering under the surface of your own.

Tuesday’s with Morrie is a wonderful, moving story. I found myself curled up on the couch, with tears streaming from my eyes as I finished this book. The first time I read this I felt nothing, so I don’t feel as though I fully understood it, or even really absorbed it at all. Reading this again, allowed me to see the book from a whole new side. I don’t feel sorry for everything that Morrie went through, I feel blessed to have heard his story. To know that even in the wake of death, he was still fighting and trying to live every moment to the fullest.

I would recommend this book, to anyone that has lost a loved one that they were very close with. It will bring tears to your eyes, but you will remember the times that you had with them whether they were good or bad. Morrie’s story has touched so many people and I hope that it will continue to touch people. It may take a few reads to get the true meaning behind the story, but once you grasp it, it will always stick with you until the day you die. ( )

This book is an enjoyable read. Before I read it I knew nothing about the diease that Morrie has. Its intreasting to see how people think back on their lives and what their morals are when they know their life is coming to an end. There was nothing in particular that I didn't like about this book. Although I wish it was longer! ( )

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Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir written by Mitch Albom. It is the story of Mitch's university professor (Morrie) who is facing a gruelling death, yet deems himself lucky and still alive despite the ticking clock. It is said that we don't know the meaning of life until we are near death. The book is full of Morrie's life lessons that transcend all religions as we are all human. Death seems to bring us closer together somehow. With birth comes death, yet we avoid talking about it because we don't want to face it. We keep ourselves busy instead, and forget that once dead, all the money we make and all the things we buy can't be brought with us. Before Morrie dies, he reaches out to people's hearts by giving love and by offering an attentive ear. With the book written, Morrie's Tuesday lessons (homework and quiz-free) are immortalized and shared with millions of readers. Morrie lives on in a way.

I like Morrie's idea of celebrating life/death with a "live" funeral as opposed to a "death" funeral because some of the nicest poems and speeches for the deceased are said at funerals, yet the loved one will never hear of it. Reading about Morrie reminds me of some of my teachers and of a Buddhist monk in particular -- a life coach, and I wonder if I have taken their teachings for granted. We usually do.

Tuesdays with Morrie is an easy read that is rich with life lessons. It is one of those books that should be forever kept on the bedside table or resting on the bookshelf with the cover facing forward as a reminder to be read and reread again. I highly recommend this book. Tuesdays with Morrie was first published on December 1st, 1997. I was only nine then and unable to read English. I know this book was a bestseller then and very popular among readers, but I'm very glad to have just read it now. Some books should be read before it's too late, and this is one of them. ( )

What a spectacular book! In the past I have heard about this book and am just now reading it. I didn't realize it was about a dying professor and his student. (I had previously read The Last Lecture, which has the same bias.) I could not put this one down.

The story about a student and how his professor touched his life. While in college, Mitch, befriended his professor Morrie. They would talk about everything, life and love..

After graduating Mitch did not keep in touch with Morrie as he promised. He became wrapped up in his own life, became money and power hungry. He saw a Nightline interview about Morrie's illness, ALS. Morrie was dying.

This prompted Mitch to get back in touch with his former professor and began visiting him on Tuesdays. Over about 6 months Mitch and Morrie spent every Tuesday together talking about life. Morrie would give such great words of wisdom to Mitch. This, in turn, made Mitch realize that life wasn't about material things. We need to live for each other.

I will take a lot of this book with me. There are so many good quotes and life lessons! ( )

I actually haven't read this book in a while, but we read it for a book club in my school and OH. MY. GOSH. I LOVE THIS BOOK SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... MUCH! It's really deep and talks about how you have to embrace life with your arms wide open. Morrie teaches Mitch, and us, that even though he is disabled in many ways and going to die soon, he doesn't look at his life as pain and ending, he looks at every day as a new beginnning and a blessing. I would recommend this book to ANYBODY (prob. ages 10&up, this book is deep and anyone younger prob. wouldn't understand the deep qualities)! ( )

Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir written by Mitch Albom. It is the story of Mitch's university professor (Morrie) who is facing a gruelling death, yet deems himself lucky and still alive despite the ticking clock. It is said that we don't know the meaning of life until we are near death. The book is full of Morrie's life lessons that transcend all religions as we are all human. Death seems to bring us closer together somehow. With birth comes death, yet we avoid talking about it because we don't want to face it. We keep ourselves busy instead, and forget that once dead, all the money we make and all the things we buy can't be brought with us. Before Morrie dies, he reaches out to people's hearts by giving love and by offering an attentive ear. With the book written, Morrie's Tuesday lessons (homework and quiz-free) are immortalized and shared with millions of readers. Morrie lives on in a way.

I like Morrie's idea of celebrating life/death with a "live" funeral as opposed to a "death" funeral because some of the nicest poems and speeches for the deceased are said at funerals, yet the loved one will never hear of it. Reading about Morrie reminds me of some of my teachers and of a Buddhist monk in particular -- a life coach, and I wonder if I have taken their teachings for granted. We usually do.

Tuesdays with Morrie is an easy read that is rich with life lessons. It is one of those books that should be forever kept on the bedside table or resting on the bookshelf with the cover facing forward as a reminder to be read and reread again. I highly recommend this book. Tuesdays with Morrie was first published on December 1st, 1997. I was only nine then and unable to read English. I know this book was a bestseller then and very popular among readers, but I'm very glad to have just read it now. Some books should be read before it's too late, and this is one of them. ( )

Book #19 - Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom

I can't really understand why people write these books and why people read them (me included). I felt like a voyuer as I read this touching story about Morrie Schwartz a 78 year old college professor dying a slow and painful death from ALS. If we read them to grasp a little bit of knowledge that we did not possess prior to reading it then this book succeeds. But why is it that we tend to listen to people more intently when they're dying when they had just as much to say when they were well? Perhaps we tend to take it more seriously. I know the author, Mitch Albom, wrote it to record his beloved professor's thoughts about what really matters in life such as death, family, marriage and our culture. I found this story to be more uplifting than depressing more inspiring than gratuitous. I can't possibly rate this book, it's like rating a life but I would recommend it's inspirational message.

Where to start? I know a lot of people love this book...but I hope it's more because of the story of Morrie. I did enjoy the book - because of Morrie's character coming through. Does this make Mitch Albom a great writer? I'd have to question that. I thought he came across as an ok writer who happened to have an excellent subject to write about. Otherwise, I thought he managed to focus a little too much on himself and I thought his writing was a little week. Still, Morrie seems like he was an incredible human being and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to "meet" him through this book. ( )

I violently hated this book. I was recommended it while my father-in-law was dying. I have zero patience for people in wealthy suburbs with round-the-clock nursing care preaching about the irrelevance of money (really all I remember about the book.) ( )

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
If you want a reminder of how important your time spent with friends can be, then this book will definitely be that for you. You will laugh & cry but it was one of the most inspirational books I have read. You can't help but like Morrie Schwartz with his common sense and wisdom : "Everyone knows they're going to die.. but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently." is so on target. Definitely a biography that is readable and memorable. ( )

Sometimes it takes the wisdom of a dying man to jog us enough to realize that human relationships and health are more important than all the gadgets, modern conveniences, pressures to get ahead professionally and monetarily combined. This is just the main point that Morrie starts "teaching" Albom and getting through to someone who, like many of us from time to time, have gotten obsessed with the real trivialities of life. The only complaint I have about this book is that it wasn't longer. I wanted to take more time and savor the wisdom and sweetness of this old man, but, like his illness's swiftness, reading the book seemed to go by all too quickly.

"Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied , you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed wih what comes back."

I first read this book a decade ago - it touched me then, and it still does. ( )