I read this book in 2008 and I adored it.... it made me think, I mean really think... It stirred many emotions in me at the time, beautifully written and something I'd like to believe in!

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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“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.

2/5

I thought the book was lovely, reassuring and just amazing.
I liked the book mostly because it gave an astonishing perspective not only about heaven but about life itself!
And oh, I found it very cool that the book started with "The End" like how cool is that? You start a book with the ending of it's main character "Eddie". But is it really the ending?

The idea of Mitch's heaven is that when you die, you go to heaven and meet five people who will explain to you why you're life was the way it was. They'll basically try to make sense of it. And you might or might not know those people in person, but some how they have affected your life, or you might have affected theirs.
The book is reassuring because it highlights the essence of life. What is the essence of life? Your life matters. Yes it does, and you have done great things in your life even though you might not know it yet but someday you will! Maybe in your life or in your afterlife/heaven/. Thus the reassuring thing is you will know it eventually.

I'm happy that I finally have picked up this book, it was such a good read! Thanks for everyone who recommended it to me.

Oh gosh. I don't think this was the book for me. After reading and loving Albom's book, The Stranger in the Lifeboat, I was really looking forward to reading this novel.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven was written from the inspiration of Albom's uncle, Edward Beitchman. While in hospital, Edward saw the souls of his departed loved ones sitting on the edge of his bed, waiting for him to join them. This story is an embellishment of what Heaven may be like, based on that experience.

The main character, Eddie, dies at the beginning of the story, where he is then taken to heaven. There, he meets five people who directly and indirectly influenced his life on Earth.

...that is what Heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
But they all crossed your path before they died. And they altered it forever.

By the end of Eddie's journey ,in heaven, he finds his own peace, which is something he struggled with during his life on Earth.

*I know my opinion is in the minority, but I found this story very boring.*

The main character is complex and likeable; the book is a very quick addictive read and it has a happy ending (not a spoiler--it is about heaven!), so a good read.

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.

فوق العاده بود!

I don't understand the one star reviews for the book. Are these directed to the author, Mitch Albom, because he openly dissed the Harry Potter phenomena via a 594-word short story? Because as far as I can tell, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a decent piece of literature that doesn't deserve the harsh punishment (presumably) directed to its writer. It's well-written, has a handful of good quotes, and is overall an inspiring and personal take on one's idea of the moment between death and the afterlife. I rather enjoyed it. Mitch Albom has a gift of words, and to give a biased rating is to behave no better than the author itself - to dislike something not based on its own merits, but because of its reputation. I have equal love for the Harry Potter books and for The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and am proud to say neither HP's popularity nor Albom's notoriety had a say in how I felt for them.

I highly recommend this book, particularly if you're one into bittersweet life lessons and notions of death. Some have accused the book for being both preachy and boring, but I don't find that the case.

Extremely well written by Mitch Albom, best-selling author of Tuesdays With Morrie. The main character, Eddie, dies and goes to heaven where he meets 5 people who help him transition from all that he needed to resolve in his earthly life in order to find tranquility and peace in heaven. Thoughtfulness, sacrifice, compassion, redemption and everlasting love.
I read this book once before but it seems to have come to light for me with this read. Highly recommended!

Strangely, obliquely, like The Alchemist because this inspires strong emotions - most people will either like it alot and find inspiration and meaning, or loathe it entirely and dismiss it as drivel.

Similar in tone and emotion with his novel Tuesdays with Morrie. I think that the greatest achievement of this story is the dreamlike, subconscious mood and setting the author creates. He can get a bit syrupy, but not too bad to make this contextually a problem.

Albom raises some interesting, thought provoking questions and leaves some unanswered, which makes for a better read, especially considering the subject.

As usual, I find myself on neither extreme, neither loving or hating it - finding some worth but also dismissing the buckets of smarmy cotton candy.