" هر پاياني آغاز هم هست ، فقط در آن لحظه اين را نمي دانيم"


" مطرود كه باشي ، حتي سنگي كه به طرفت مي اندازند ، مي تواند دلت را شاد كند "


"وقتي مارگريت رفت ادي گذاشت روزهايش بود كهنگي بگيرد.اجازه داد قلبش بخوابد"


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" Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory, Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it"
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN tells the story of Eddie, the head of maintenance department at a well-known amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie had a severe accident. Along with Eddie, the reader gets to know what he discovered in his afterlife. Every now and then, there are flashback scenes to some of Eddie's previous birthdays.
Albom thinks in his novel that our lives don't end by our death but it begin. Each one discovers the real meaning of his life, it's like an explanation of what we have faced in our lives. Second, Albom says that all the events and the people in our lives are interconnected. Each soul that reaches to heaven has to meet five persons in it's afterlife from which it gets to know five lessons and secrets.
A unique, interesting, well-written and very creative story. Also, it's a very easy and quick read.

Got kind of slow in the middle, but overall I like the message of the story :)

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

A maintenance man called Eddie dies and is sent to heaven, where he encounters five people - some known to him and some not - who each teach him a lesson.

If heaven truly exists, I sure hope it’s exactly like this! What sounds better than meeting up with loved ones who have gone before and have them explain to you the meaning of your life?

Religion and whether or not you believe in heaven or the afterlife is obviously a very personal thing and therefore I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this book to everyone. The book wasn’t overly religious nor was it preachy either, and I do think non-religious people could still enjoy the story, but that’s up to each reader to decide!

I do believe in God and I do believe in the afterlife - and I feel like that’s a difficult thing to openly admit on here, but I feel like it’s necessary to explain why I loved this book. It was a total comfort blanket for me - my beliefs are a way of coping with my dad’s death.

This is really a very touching story about the impact we have on those around us. The style and writing is simplistic, but it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, and once again I was grateful to read a weepy book like this by the pool with sunglasses to hide my tears.

In conclusion, I wouldn’t recommend this to everyone, but if it sounds like something you’d enjoy or if you’re dealing with the death of a loved one, then give it a chance! 4 stars.

I have read this book quite a few times and will definitely read again in the future.
Fantastic book, brilliant story.
Recommended

As with all of Mitch Albom's books - this was my sixth - this too was a solid, heartwarming, thought-provoking book. There are quite enough books out there to depress us, guilt us, scare us, and thrill us, but I know I can always count on this author to inspire me and make me happy.

His books leave you feeling hopeful - like life's not so bad after all. Perhaps we could all use a little Mitch Albom in our lives. Heaven knows we need it.

A story that begins with "The End" actually never ends!

Everyone has an idea of heaven, as do most religions, and they should all be respected. The version represented here is only a guess, a wish, in some ways, that my uncle, and others like him—people who felt unimportant here on earth—realize, finally, how much they mattered and how they were loved.

It is a story about Eddie an old forgotten man working in Ruby Pier, an amusement park.



Eddie gets into an accident in the very beginning, then he dies! That is not a spoiler btw