As people, we all have our own idea what heaven is like, and I quite like the author's take on it. The book follows Eddie, who dies on his 83rd birthday while trying to save a young girls' life at the amusement park he works. His journey takes him through his life in the form of five people that had an impact in his life, through all major crossroads in his life that he did not even think was important at the time and why his life followed the route it did. In the end Eddie finds peace through this journey and finds out what the meaning of his life was and goes to his own part of heaven where he is always happy. A nice and quick read.

!بعد از خوندن این کتاب، باید روزی شونصد بار با خودم بگم: هیچی اونجوری که تو فکر میکنی نیست، بچه جون
هر آدم/داستان/ماجرا/قضیه ای هزاران وجه مختلف داره و ما فقط میتونیم یک وجه از اون رو ببینیم
پس هیچ وقت نمیتونیم قضاوت کنیم و سر از اصل و حقیقت وجودیِ ماجرا در بیاریم
بیاین یکم صبورتر باشیم و باور داشته باشیم که یه روزی بالاخره میتونیم حداقل یکم بیشتر ازعلت اتفاق های عجیب و غریب زندگی رو درک کنیم
زمان قطعا جوابه :))))
و یادت نره که همه ی ما آدما بهم مرتبطیم و توی زندگی اطرافیانمون (حتی کسایی که برامون کاملا غریبه ان) تأثیر داریم
«درست مثل اثر پروانه ای که میگه: «بال زدن پروانه در یک نقطه از جهان باعث طوفانی در نقطه دیگری از جهان میشه
در عین حال این رو هم بدون که دیگران مسؤول زندگی تو نیستن. زندگی مجموعی از انتخاب های توئه

SPOLIER ALERT!!! DO NOT READ ANY FARTHER IF YOU HAVENT READ YET!!! What an incredible book this was. This was about a man who dies. He dies trying to save a little girl at the amusement park he worked as a maintenance man. After he dies, he meets 5 people who actually show him his life had meaning. Eddie, didn’t believe he was worth anything. He thought his life meant nothing. He first meets a man he accidently helped die after the man almost kills him with a car. The second one he meets is his captain in the army. He helps him understand what actually happened while he was fighting in the war. Captain shot eddie’s knee to keep him from entering a burning building that they set after they escaped from their captors. Eddie entered the burning building because he thought he saw a little kid in there. The third person is the woman who the amusement park was named after. She wanted Eddie to see the good in what Eddie did. She also helped him forgive his father after seeing the real man he was. The fourth person he meets is his wife. He loved her and only her. After she died of cancer, he never loved again. She showed him how much that really meant to her. The fifth person was the little girl who actually was in the burning building during the war. So he wasn’t losing his mind. This was a surprise ending. And you also found out he saved the little girl at the amusement park. And his life did have meaning. Because of how well he did his job, always making sure the rides were safe. Looking out for the kids, his life really did have value. One by one, these mostly unexpected characters remind him that we all live in a vast web of interconnection with other lives; that all our stories overlap; that acts of sacrifice seemingly small or fruitless do affect others; and that loyalty and love matter to a degree we can never fathom. This book brought tears to my eyes. It is definitely one of the good ones

روايت (ميچ البوم) در كتاب (پنج نفري كه در بهشت ملاقات مي‌كنيد) شرح ملاقات‌هايي‌ست كه قهرمان داستان و يا شايد هر يك از ما در دنيايي ديگر از سر مي‌گذرانيم
اشخاصي كه در زندگي ما نقش داشتند و هر يك به نوبه‌ي خود سر فصلي را در زندگي ما با�� كردند؛ ح��ي بدون اين‌كه بدانيم اين اشخاص مهم‌ترين و تأثيرگذارترين حركت را در زندگي ما به وجود آوردند و خود از آن غافل بوديم
باري، انسان‌ها از طريق ارتباط و يا كنش و واكنش با اطرافيانشان شكل مي‌گيرند، رشد مي‌كنند، بزرگ مي‌شوند و خلاصه به انجام و بعضي‌ها به سرانجام خود مي‌رسند و چه نيك است كه در جايي بتوان مهم‌ترين و نافذترين اشخاص زندگي خود را ببينيم و آنان تعريف كنند از آن‌چه (خيام) "اسرار ازل" مي‌خواندش و ديگران "روي ديگر سكه" كه ما در اين جهان قادر به خواندنش نبوديم

Talks about a dead man,Eddie, who goes to heaven to learn what heaven is not about and what heaven should mean.
He will meet five important people in heaven (who may or may not be someone he knows personally during his lifetime) giving him a chance to look back and see how his life actually was as opposed to how he perceived his life when he was alive. *Some important themes that are dealt with:
Sacrifices that were unknowingly made; grudges, anger, hatred, regrets ruining lives; unseen blessings; single-mindedness ruining relationships; child neglect and domestic abuse; romance; war; relationships that make a person. *Misconceptions regarding this book:
It is a serious book dealing with war, deaths, broken relationships and complicated family relationships. Not just a mere philosophical book.
It is definitely a sad read, and not a self help book to deal with personal issues and how to come out of it.
But I guarantee you, you will not cry buckets but help you analyse your relationships and think about the important people in your life in a different way. *Why you should pick up this book:
It brings up issues that we usually don't consider important and think they don't make much impact on our lives when they actually do.
Complicated matters in relationships that are dealt with in the book with such depthness and understanding is really appreciable.

This is not a book meant for only adults.
I would like to recommend this book to everyone young and old.
I am sure this book is one of those life changing reads.

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دومین کتابی بود که از میچ آلبوم میخوندم. اولیش سه شنبه ها با موری بود. این یکی رو بیشتر دوس داشتم. قلم روان و خوشخوانی داره و در عین حال که داستان خوبی داره، سنگین نیست و برای آنتراک دادن به ذهن خوبه

Joelle Huertasttttttttt
904ttttttttW.A.t
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. It is a captivating book that deals with fait, death, and how everything you do affects someone else. I found myself comparing little choices or decisions I made to the ones Eddie, the main character made. I’m not into books about heaven or death but I found myself loving every minute of it. I found myself gasping, crying, and laughing with the characters because of the way Mitch Albom portrays Eddie is so moving. If you want a good fiction book, this is a MUST read!
tEddie is a character who is alone in life, no family, no friends, just his job at the amusement park as janitor. It breaks your heart how alone he is. It’s so poignant the way it is written that it makes you want to befriend the aged lonely man.
t The way the book starts is like the saying the end is only a new beginning. The beginning is the tragic, horrifying death of Eddie, and the death, or end, is only the beginning to his afterlife and the entry to heaven. The book puts such new perspectives on life to you and gives you knowledge of how to live life to the fullest.
tSo many quotes can apply to your life, or help you out. For example Ruby, one of the five people Eddie meets in heaven, says to Eddie “Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves...” I personally love that quote because it help me let go of things because I was filled with anger. I learned to let go, appreciate what you have and to have faith. The book is like having a mentor or role model who teaches you how to deal.
tWhile reading the book you find yourself astound on how every little thing one does can alter someone’s life. Take Eddie for example. He is playing ball in the street, when the blue man is in a car. Eddie drops the ball, and chases it into the street where the blue man suddenly has a heart attack due to the scare he is facing of hitting this little boy in the street.
tEddie goes through so much in the book. With deaths of every one he loves, to his own death in the very first chapter. He has to learn to accept death, fait, letting go, there are no random acts in life, and that love always wins! The way he learns is so amazing because he is so realistic, he’s a kind, old, and he would sacrifice himself for others. The way Albom shows this it makes you feel like you know him, to me I felt as if he was my grandfather.
tEssentially this book is a must read whether you believe in heaven or not. I guarantee you will be moved by this book. There is even a movie too! One thing you will wonder after you finish reading this book is who will be your five people you meet in heaven?
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“There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”

Read this book four years ago and I decided to give it a re-read because I remember it ripped me open. In "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" we meet Eddie 50mins before he dies- yes, we basically start at the end with this book. After his death Eddie meets five people, each is connected to his life in someway, however, he doesn't know this until it is explained to him.

What I love about this book is how short and profound it is. We go through life thinking we aren't connected or that we are alone and nothing could be further from the truth. We are all connected in a big way and this book drives this point home beautifully.

A must read!

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

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 :/

Eddie is apparently supposed to just forgive his jerk of a father, who beat him and his brother relentlessly during their childhood. And again, he is supposed to be OK with living in a place and job he feels trapped in and has clearly been manipulated into. And sure, they were his choices to make, but am I really just supposed to ignore the part where his mother had given up, where he did what he did to get the approval of his father. Eddie sacrificed big time for his family, but the thing is that he saw nothing for it.

Yet this lady is telling him that there was more to his father, because he did something brave. And? I'm sorry but should he give a shit about what his father did for a mate when he was horrible to him all his life?
Urm, NO!
Keep your goodness to yourself lady.

She is just so full of it. Apparently, she wishes a certain so-so never built the place but you proudly reveal who you are, don't you?

Things like:
'Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know'
'The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone'
'Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to'
'Before he can devote himself to god or a woman , a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation'

Now the above might sound awfully poetic and nice from afar but just screams utter bullshit closer up. Like, am I actually supposed to believe that shit, really?

And after over 80 years of hurt - because of this woman's 'wise words' - just like that, he forgives.

And I'm just supposed to believe that. *sighs*

But it does get those three stars for a reason. Because guys, there are also some wonderful moments in the book. Such as:
The thought of heaven being a place that holds most significance to you is a nice feeling. Heaven including five people that will help you find meaning to the life you lived whilst alive is also quite nice. (A little too wishful but something comforting to read about.)
Lastly, I love the romance featured in the book.

And how can you not? Eddie was so deeply in love with her - and so smitten - that it is just completely endearing. It shows more of a innocent time. A time where: first dates, holding hands, and courting, were the norm. Eddie very much the gentleman and Marguerite very much the young lady.
I just LOVED the the vibe this book gave. Perhaps it was the vividness that I loved most.
I can see this homely mother in her apron so clearly and the strict, tough, father, which seemed like the 'in' thing back in the day. It's interesting seeing everything through his eyes, and how he deals with out-living all his family and friends and seeing his past stripped away as change and technology start to take over. It is certainly very sad.

Eddie is a damaged man of sorts. The war never really brought him back to his older self and he pretty much lost his family and friends because of it and almost his wife.
His wife, though, is someone who he speaks so sweetly about that I just turned to mush. It's as though she was his air.
And to top it all off, he doesn't re-marry!
Isn't it all just overwhelmingly romantic?

But there is another side to these times that aren't so appealing. The father is very much the man of the house. And in his father's case, it gives him the leeway to beat and bully his children as he likes. To tell his wife to go back to bed when she wakes up from the screaming. And what does she do? Like an obedient, silly girl, she goes back to bed, doesn't have the nerve to speak up for her children or apologise to them.
Yeah. From afar she was the mother who was nice, kind, and affectionate in contrast to his father's hard ways, but when they needed her most, she was freaking useless.

I mean these are things that continue to haunt Eddie until his last days, and it's horrible to watch. To feel so incomplete, lonely, and bitter. And then to top it all off, you come face to face with a woman who pretty much tells you that you shouldn't be angry.

I mean, how dare you think he has no right.

I felt like I was being told all these things. That it's wrong to hold in anger, that sacrificing is a good thing, that we don't have the right to feel angry or bitter, that thinking you're alone is a waste of your life. Telling me that a son is bound to devote himself to his father first, rather than his mother or god -regardless of being abused by him. I mean, what is this - a competition? (!)
What if you are just alone, though? What then? What if you're not just thinking it. What if you just are. And what if you got screwed over so damn bad that forgiving is just not something that seems like an option. What if sacrificing something didn't make you feel good at all - no matter how good the reason for the sacrifice was. What if you were still hurting and bitter. And what if you didn't worship your father as a son?

I guess at moments the book tended to come across as very black and white.

It felt a little manipulative.

OR, maybe I just took it personally?

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".

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.