Do you think Sully really received calls from Giselle?

[Nichole]

Isn't it possible that Horace had been making Giselle's calls but neglected to mention her intentionally in the letter? And then had her call, post-Horace death, set up on a recording of some sort? Or do you think Sully really received the call from Giselle?

While I understand the purpose of the story is to leave hope and faith to those that believe in Heaven and the after-life, isn't a little silly that Sully's was potentially the only real call from Heaven? I can't help but think that, after all, if the ending wasn't written as it is, then the whole story would've been quite moot by Albom standards. So in way, I felt this book was a bit out of Albom's writing element. But still, was a good read.

Thoughts?

[Matt]

I think Albom purposefully left it ambiguous. If the reader wants to use that last phone call as evidence of heaven's existence, then Albom is happy to provide it. But he also wrote the character of Horace to make it believable that he did somehow create one more call even after his death.

[Jack]

I dont think Sully actully made calls to Giselle, but theres a chance that he did.

[Joclyn]

Interesting, but didn't Sully kinda destroy Horace's equipment before he received his phone call?

[Nichole]

Supposedly. But I think it mentioned that there were some people that knew what Horace was up to, and could come and destroy the evidence for him if they needed to so that Sully couldn't prove anything. So, what gives those people weren't the ones that called Sully after Horace passed?

[Renae]

I think he did. According to the time when he received the call and the reported death of Horace there is no way that Horace placed the call. Unless there were two involved in the original scheme. Additionally, Sully also talked to his wife in a vision as well during a period of unconsciousness post wreck.

[Alyssainah]

"people believe what they want to believe." -Horace Belfin/Elliot Gray Sr.

[Amy]

I like that it is up to the reader's interpretation. There is no right or wrong answer to this question. It all goes back to what one believes.

[Janine]

It's more in "line" with Albom's style to have at least one miracle in a book...

[Evelyn]

Janine wrote: "It's more in "line" with Albom's style to have at least one miracle in a book..."
I agree, and that's what I like the most about Albom's books.

[AliJ]

I havent really enjoyed his last 2 books. This one was Ok but the Timekeeper I didnt even finish.

[Evelyn]

I really liked the Timekeeper because it gave different scenarios of how we measure time and what it means to each of us. What's important is how we use our time.

[K]

I honestly do not know what I want to believe - that it really was Giselle from heaven? Because what she said was too specific. Something about do not tell him, when Sully was on the verge of telling that Elwood Jupes-related person who the guy behind the calls was. So..... But the cynic in me says, yeah, def Horace for the one one last boom before he dies, the "finale" so to speak.