what providence: i just remembered this book after I read some holier-than-though pretentious bullshit Mitch Albom wrote about Harry Potter. Mr. Albom-Winfrey seems to think the mass marketing of Harry Potter has ruined the theoretical lives of such figures as Winnie the Pooh, Clifford, Curious George, etc., despite that his own shitty books have been thrust upon the world under the same kind of marketing blitz.

As if I weren't annoyed enough at his article, I was subsequently reminded of this l More...

One of the great things about checking out audiobooks from the public library is that I can take a chance on something I normally wouldn't buy, and I end up loving it. And then, of course, there are the times I take a chance on something I wouldn't normally like and end up really hating it as predicted. See if you can guess which is the case here by the end of this post.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is about Eddie, an amusement park maintenance guy who dies and goes to heaven. Spoiler alert More...

I never had any desire to read this book (or Tuesdays with Morrie for that matter), but a girl in my LSAT class gave it to me to read, so I felt like I had to read it.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is an incredibly quick read. It has small pages with big font and the content is not at all challenging. You could easily read this book in a weekend. That said, I don't know if you would want to. While the book was mildly entertaining and held my interest (I kept wanting to know who Eddie would More...

seperti buku2 Mitch Albom lainnya, di buku ni alur ceritanya pun maju mundur..mungkin ni ciri khasnya..oiya diantara babnya pasti ada tulisan2 khusus di masa lampau..*gw suka gaya lo..hihihi..*

sesuai dengan judul bukunya, Eddie, Sang tokoh utama menemui 5 orang di alam baka setelah kematiannya itu..dan setiap orang yg ia temui memberikan satu pelajaran kepada Eddie..

Orang pertama mengajarkan klo hidup semua orang itu saling berkaitan..kita tidak menyadari mungkin di saat kita bergembira..di sudu More...

عشق از دست رفته هنوز هم عشق است.فقط شکلش عوض می شود،همین.دیگر نمی توانی لبخند عشقت را ببینی یا برایش غذا ببری یا موهایش را نوازش کنی و یا با او برقصی،اما وقتی این حس ها ضعیف می شوند،حس های دیگر قدرت می یابند خاطرات، خاطرات شریکت می شوند.تو آن را غذا می دهی.بغلش می کنی . با آن می رقصی!
هر کس در زندگی اش یک لحظه عشق حقیقی را می بیند و آن لحظه تا ابد مانند یک تصویر در ذهنش حک می شود.
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زندگی باید به پایان برسد ولی عشق نه!

Joelle Huertas
904 W.A.
Book Review On The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
By Mitch Albom
208pp Passaic, New Jersey
ISBN-13: 9781401308582
Hyperion $10.80

This book was so amazing that it remained on the New York Best Seller List for 95 weeks. If the book wasn’t that marvelous why would it have remained there? Mitch Albom’s book The Five People You Meet In Heaven is an extraordinary book. You might think it’s a religious book because the title itself, but it isn’t. More...

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't."

The book that taught me the idea of death, God and life's never ending unanswered questions.

I vaguely remember when exactly I read this but I remember I read this couple of months before I More...

Buku yang bagus terutama bagi yang suka memaknai dan menghargai Hidup, membuat kita untuk selalu bersyukur kepada Sang Pencipta.

Pelajaran 1:
Tidak ada kehidupan yang sia-sia. Satu-satunya waktu yang kita sia-siakan adalah waktu yang kita habiskan dengan mengira kita hanya sendirian.

Pelajaran 2:
Pengorbanan bagian dari kehidupan, bukan untuk disesali jika mengorbankan sesuatu yang berharga, karena kita tidak sungguh-sungguh kehilangan itu, Kita hanya meneruskannya pada orang lain.

Pelajaran 3:
MAAF. More...

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

pernah berpikir akan seperti apa surga itu? well rasanya sangat sedikit manusia yang masih hidup yang tau seperti apa wujud surga. Diluar konsep keagamaan apapun yang kita anut, di buku ini, mitch memberikan konsep yang sangat menarik tentang surga. Surga dalam buku ini berupa suatu moment paling membahagiakan dalam hidup kita (atau yang paling bahagia yang bisa kita bayangkan) yang tidak akan pernah habis habis.. pernah mengal More...

Awalnya, membaca judulnya , saya mencurigai buku ini sebagai kisah religius tentang kehidupan sesudah mati, tempat orang bertemu malaikat, bidadari, dan Tuhan. Atau hanya kisah lucu-lucuan tentang surga. Ternyata, kecurigaan saya salah semua. Ini "hanya" sebuah novel "biasa" tentang seseorang bernama Eddie yang semasa hidupnya hampir seluruhnya dihabiskan bekerja di bagian pemeliharaan (maintenance)--karena itu orang-orang lalu mengenalnya sebagai Eddie Maintenance-- di sebuah taman hiburan bern More...

“Orang-orang asing adalah keluarga yang masih belum kaukenal…. Tidak ada kehidupan yang sia-sia. Satu-satunya waktu yang sia-sia adalah ketika kita menghabiskan waktu dengan mengira bahwa kita hanya sendirian.”

Keseluruhan novel ini sangat layak untuk diambil sebagai bahan reramuan mengolah hidup dan kehidupan. Tentang kerja dan profesi, ada catatan penting tentang harga dari sebuah profesi, terutama pada aspek nilai penting pekerjaan kita bagi orang lain. Apakah kita cukup sekadar melihat pekerj More...

منذ مدة طويييلة لم أقرأ شيئا لامس أعماقي كهذا الكتاب، يجعلني أطرق وأفكر ، أنظر للبعيد الماضي وأتسائل عن القريب المقبل..


الكتاب يتحدث عن رجل مات في حادث أثناء تأديته لعمله في مدينة الملاهي ، بعد ذلك ينتقل هذا الرجل "إدي" إلى الجنة ليقابل هناك 5 أشخاص تقاطعوا معه بطريقة أو بأخرى في حياته..كل منهم كان ينتظره ليحكي له قصة كان لها تأثير على حياته وعلى تقرير مصيره في الدنيا، كانوا يساعدونه على فهم وتفسير كثير من الأمور التي لم يكن لها منطق واضح وقتها...


القصة مثيرة وترابط الأحداث متقن يظهر كم هي مصائر ا More...

Five People You Meet in Heaven adalah novel Mitch Albom yang mengisahkan perjalanan setelah kematian yang ditempuh seorang kepala maintenance di lokasi permainan yang bernama Ruby Pier, yang lebih dikenal sebagai Eddie Maintenance. Eddie menjalani hari-harinya sebagai kepala bagian maintenance dengan bosan, karena ia sebenarnya tidak menyukai pekerjaan itu, dan karena tiada lagi orang-orang dekat yang dicintainya.

Kisah berawal dari hari kematian Eddie, saat dalam menjalankan tugasnya menyelamatk More...

I just loved the fact that the fifth and last person here in this book is a Filipino. :D

I learned that we affect other people's lives however small we do to others. :D

This is just the most awful book I have ever read. I hate this book!

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of many books that follow the protagonist as he or she travels into the after life. In this case, it's a maintenance man from a local carnival named Eddie and he dies after being crushed by a falling ride. From there he learns the ropes of Heaven from five mentors whom he knew in his life.

These books can either be mind blowing explorations of the human spirit and imagination (The Inferno by Dante Alighieri), fantasy romps that straddle the morose and the More...

This book is very imaginative I'll give the author that much at least. I don't know if I liked the story so much as the way it was written. Don't get me wrong, the story was very creative and it made you think, but he wrote so poetically it was hard for the words not to sink into your soul. The story was about a old crippled man named Eddie. Eddie worked at an amusement park called Ruby Pier and he was the head maintenance worker. The book starts on the day of his death. There was this little gi More...

Having read it some years back, I still saw it as a book that I would love.

And I did during the first half. However, towards the second half, it definitely started to dwindle a bit. I found myself caring less and less about who he was going to meet and found this somewhat of a short book very much dragging. Man, it sucks to see things so differently years later.

I always thought that it wasn't preachy. I mean, whenever I looked back on it, I was SO sure that it wasn't. But boy was it preachy :/

Ed More...

I thought this novel was clever. The fact that there was a scene in the Philippines, and Eddie in a conversation with a Filipino kid at the end of the story added up to a satisfying read 'cause, well, yes, I'm a Filipino.

Anyways, almost two years after reading it, I realized I can't recommend this to genuine Christians, because, well, obviously this isn't our concept of what heaven is, and what it will be like if we get there. I think The Five People You Meet in Heaven is too shallow a read. The More...

The five people yo meet in heaven starts out with a grumpy old man named Eddie. The reader in unaware of his past and why he is so lonely. Eddie works ar a carnival which has deeper meaning to him than just spinning rides and cotton candy stands. On his 83 birthday he had no idea it would be his last. Saving an innocent girl from a broken carnival ride, he gave his life. Now sent to heaven he meets five people who remind him of his past. They show how he affected the world in a way that was unc More...

For my outside reading book I read "five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom. after reading this book i truly understand the sense of what a true hero is, probably if you were to ask me what a hero is before i read this book i would say someone who has unstoppable strength and always get the girl, wait don't forget the cape. this book will surely show you that you don't need super human strength to be deem a hero but by just doing something or show you care a little will do the trick but t More...

If I met this book in Heaven, I would be very disappointed.
And, OK, I only read about fifteen pages, but that was enough.
You don't have to eat 130 bowls of shredded wheat to know that you can't stand it.

And I actually sort of liked his book about the old guy, and I guess his dog book is probably pretty awesome and all, but, oh man, this book, excruciating...
for fifteen pages...but, really, that's a pretty good chunk of this.

First of all i owe a huge thanks to the person that recommended me to read this book... and in general to start reading Mitch Albom's novels. I find it first of all original that he's dealing with a unique kind of subject,how can heaven really be like. It's remarkable how he's managed in not so many pages to mention so many things... "5 people you meet in heaven" is an hymn to some very fundamental values of life, the writer being a sport's journalist himself seems to be aware that it takes no c More...

The most boring book ever written.

The book, The Five People you Meet in Heaven, is about a man named Eddie, that on his 83rd birthday, got killed in a tragic accident at an amusement park, trying to save a little girl. As Eddie is dying, he feels two hands in his, than his world rapidly goes black. He awakens and the skies are changing colors above him, and every wound he had on his body is now healed. Throughout Eddie's journey, he meets five people. People he has not met before, or people he has only came across once, but have More...

Firstly, I reckon this book deserves a two and a half rating. I wavered between giving it a two or a three, I eventually opted for the two, because I think it is closer to a one than it is to a four.

What I did like about it is that it is an easy read that romps along very nicely and never bogs down in the detail of the narrative- it is in fact more an account. I also really liked the idea behind it. Eddie, a likeable old man, dies in a tragic accident on his 83 birthday and is spirited off to h More...

My best friend and college roommate gave this to me at Christmas in '07. I read it in the first quarter of '08. She was well intended and I think thought it would help me as I was maneuvering to recover from the loss of my mother who died unexpectedly Christmas day '04. The year she gave it to me I was having trouble with my breathing. And, it was an unexpected way for me to be dealing with the third anniversary of losing her. What I had a hard time with in this book was the actual experiences t More...

This is a really cute "short story." It tells the story of an elderly man who has worked in matenience at a boardwalk amusement park his entire life. The story starts with his pushing a young girl out of the way before part of a ride falls on her. He ends up dying and finds himself in "Heaven", which is really a person who is connected to his past. The story flashes back to his life story with each person he meets. The fifth person is a young girl whom he doesn't recognize, but in the end she br More...

Seperti judulnya, buku ini berkisah tentang pertemuan seorang yg telah mati dengan 5 orang berbeda di "surga". Tapi entah kenapa judul terjemahan Indonesianya jadi "Meniti Bianglala" bukannya "5 Orang Yang Kautemui di Surga". Judul kedua kurang menarik kali ya ;P

Dan sama seperti buku Mitch Albom yg pernah saya baca sebelumnya, Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request, penggalan2 dalam buku ini dibuat pendek-pendek dan dengan alur maju mundur. Bagi beberapa orang yang tidak suka "menyatuk More...