من کتاب رو به صورت صوتی و با صدای آرمان سلطان زاده گوش دادم. فوق العاده بود.
برای من سراسر امید و معنا بود این کتاب و همونطور که حس خوبی درمورد مرگ به آدم میداد درمورد زندگی هم همینطور بود. انگار از یه جایی به بعد، دیگه شخصیت داستان، ادی نبود، خودت جای ادی بودی و داشتی توی بهشت قدم میزدی و.....

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 girl in the amusement park and her mom had left her alone so she could go on the rides with only her boyfriend and not her daughter. There was this ride at Ruby Pier called Freddy's Free Fall and it is one of those rides that you're at the top of a really tall pole and it just let's the cart drop and it's really fast until something catches it and you slow down right at the very end. So anyway, as Eddie is doing his rounds Freddy's Free Fall breaks and the cable is starting to snap (but nobody knows this yet) and there are people at the top and Eddie goes and tells his co-worker to get the people out of the cart and then to let the cart drop. But then as his coworker has gotten everyone out of the cart and preparing to let it drop Eddie realizes that it's the cable and if they let the cart drop, the cable will snap and it will fall off its tracks into the crowd of people that had formed below. Eddie tries to yell to his coworker but he doesn't hear him and so Eddie yells to the crowd to get back. The people listen...all except for the little girl. So as his coworker lets the cart down Eddie runs to save her but as soon as the cart falls on him, he feels two little hands in his. He doesn't know if he saves her. Then he has to go to heaven and meet five people that will explain to him about his life. I think this book was very inspiring. I was surprised at the ending and I thought that is was very good. I just really enjoyed reading Mitch Albom's work mainly I think because of the poetry. It was written in a very captivating style. I think that my favorite phrase that the author used was to describing Eddie. "...this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his shoes in a world of mechanical laughter and grilled frankfurters." Mechanical laughter and grilled frankfurters. This book should be read by anyone and everyone and although it is not very religious, it really made me think about life and life after death. VERY GOOD READ!

Not my kind of book but read it for book club. All about the interconnectedness of all people and events in our lives. A bit hokey. Nothing you haven't heard before. Nothing inspirational or thought-provoking.

I thought this would be a more uplifting book with those Eddie met be people whose lives were positively uplifted by Eddie as he "arrived" in Heaven, but alas, I didn't feel that. I tried my best not to compare this to "Tuesday's With Morrie" which I really liked.

Meeting his wife again was a very good story line and her entire life from the first time she met Eddie to when she died was well conceived and written. The four other people he met were such a great mix of characters and other than his military Captain, I tried really hard to see where they fit into his life.
I'm not sure that I'll read his follow up "The Next Person You'll Meet In Heaven".

I was disappointed with this book. The premise has a lot of potential, but the story didn’t deliver. I’d hoped for something more subtle. I wanted the five people Eddie met to have done something more ordinary that had changed his life. Those everyday little things, that might not even matter that much to one person, but have a huge impact on another. Those people you forgot about or failed to give the credit they deserved in daily life. But every encounter involved someone dying tragically, mostly in an unusual way. It was all very clunky and heavy-handed.

I mean, the book is ok. It’s easy to read, but it didn’t have any impact on me and I didn’t find it uplifting. It felt like it was written by a single man in his thirties who’s not as wise as they think they are. The idea needed to be dealt with in a more thoughtful, delicate, and inventive way.

I think if you want a life-affirming story, which shows you your time on earth meant more than you realised, watch ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, instead.

5 stars:

-If your going through grief, I think this book could be helpful. This author is superb.

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 changed his life forever. As he meets these people, each has a special story, that gives Eddie a look back on his life. Everything the five people have to say is pretty important, and it will change the way Eddie looks back at his life, forever.

This book is one of the manifestations that a book can transform.
The five people you meet in heaven did potently moved me.
Spectacularly written story!

The most boring book ever written.

خمسة تقابلهم في الجنة
تاليف ميتش ألبوم
طباعة المركز الثقافي العربي
ترجمة إيهاب عبدالحميد
عدد الصفحات 207
التقييم 4 / 5
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سوف أبدأ مراجعتي هذه بسؤال لك عزيزي القارىء، الذي لم يقرأ الرواية بعد هل تجد عنوان هذه الرواية غريب؟!
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تدور أحداث الرواية بطريقة عكسية حيث نتعرف على البطل للرواية المدعو إدوارد أو إيدي كما يُلقب وهو في آخر مراحل حياته وتحديداً عندما يتعرض للوفاة جراء محاولته إنقاذ طفلة في أحدى الألعاب الموجودة بمدينة الملاهي التي يعمل بها مشرفاً على الصيانة!!
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عاش إيدي حياة مليئة بالأحداث السيئة والفقد للاحبة حتى بات لا يرى نفسه وهو في أراذل العمر سوى إنسان يدور في حلقة يومية متكررة بين عمله الذي زاوله لسنوات وبين وحدته بعد وفاة زوجته.
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تكمن القصة في اللحظة التي سوف يفارق فيها إيدي هذه الحياة وهو يجهل إن كان قد غامر بحياته واستطاع انقاذ الطفلة ام انه قد فشل ايضاً حتى في ذلك!! ومن ثم يقابل خمسة أشخاص في ذلك البعد ( الجنة ) ويتعرف على حكاياتهم التي كانت بسبب او باخر تقاطع مع حكايات اخرى واشخاص آخرين في الزمن الذي عاشه!
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والسؤال هو هل سيجد إيدي تصالحه مع كل ما حدث له من قبل وهل سيتعرف على المسببات للاحداث التي وقعت له؟! هذا ما اتركه لك عزيزي القارىء لتتعرف عليه من خلال قراءتك للرواية.
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إن كنت قد قرأت هذه الرواية شاركنا برأيك عنها وإن كنت لم تقرأها بعد فهل شجعتك هذه المراجعة لقراءتها؟!
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التقييم
رواية جميلة ورغم هدوء مجرى الاحداث فيها إلا انك ستجدها بشكل ما تلامس مشاعرك واحاسيسك بشكل واضح، اعجبتني الحركة الانتقالية للماضي والتكرار له وربط ذلك مع الاستنتاج الذي يصل له إيدي.
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ملاحظة: لم يعجبني كثيراً غلاف الرواية العربية، ماذا عنكم؟
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“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.“

The concept, the story, the lessons, and the idea of heaven- what was there not to like? After Khaled Hosseini and Toni Morrison, if there is an author I can read in one sitting, it is Mitch Albom.

The story starts with the last hour of the lead character ‘Eddie’ on earth. And ends with him understanding the life he left behind. As the title suggests, Eddie meets five people up in heaven, and all five of them had an impact on the life he lived. Each one of them carries their own story and a lesson for him.

“That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another.”

That's the beauty of this work of fiction, the entrapment of the lives of 6 different people as if they are all one. The thing I most love about Mitch Albom is his narrating style; there was not even a single dull or slow moment while reading his work. You and your imagination flow as the story moves forward.

I will surely recommend this to everyone. Please read this one; it's a must.

Beautiful simple story of our life and what heaven might mean. I enjoyed discovering what it means to others.