bro the ending fcking killed me

simple and sweet book, thought it was pretty well done

4.5

تجربه جالبی بود. اینکه انسانی بتونه وضعیت خودش رو بپذیره و مهمتر از اون تلاش کنه از لحظه لحظه زندگی اش بهره ببره.

برای من این عقیده موری در مورد کمک و همدردی و …. با دیگران سخت معتقدم و احساسش در این مورد برای من کاملا ملموس و قابل درک بود.

کتابی بود که ارزش خوندن داره ، همین طور ارزش توصیه کردن به دیگران

A beautiful memorial to a beloved professor who touched the souls of everyone he encountered. I loved his advice as to not buying into the American culture of “more, more, more.” Highly relatable and a solid, quick read!

“Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? Back home, the O. J. Simpson trial was in full swing, and there were people who surrendered their entire lunch hours watching it, then taped the rest so they could watch more at night. They didn't know O. J. Simpson. They didn't know anyone involved in the case. Yet they gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama.”

“[Morrie] took more time eating and looking at nature and wasted no time in front of TV sitcoms or ‘Movies of the Week.’ He had created a cocoon of human activities—conversation, interaction, affection—and it filled his life like an overflowing soup bowl.”

وای که چه کتابی بود! چقدر صمیمی... چقدر واقعی ... چقدر لذت بخش!
از دستش ندین.

This was SUCH a beautiful but emotional book. This one’s gonna stick with me for a very, very long time. Highly recommend!! Review to come sometime this week when I have gathered my thoughts x

یک کتاب عالی که هر کسی باید حداقل یکبار آن را بخواند

Mitch Albom beautifully tells the story of Morrie Schwartz, his former sociology professor whom he reconnected with later in life. Morrie has been diagnosed with ALS and he's dying. Mitch meets with Morrie regularly, on Tuesdays, seeking to reminisce on the old lessons from the classroom as well as draw forth more wisdom from Morrie about life, death, and dying.

One might assume that tales of a dying man would be grim and tragic, but Tuesdays with Morrie is anything but. Was I left in devastating tears after reading it? Yes. But I also felt this great sense of peace, inspiration, and warmth.

Mitch has a casual writing style, which perfectly suited this content. I felt as though I were there, in the room with Morrie and Mitch, on Tuesday, chatting about life and soaking up Morrie's words. Mitch and Morrie cover a variety of topics, heavy and light - including death, fear, aging, greed, marriage and family, society, forgiveness (of others and of yourself), and how to live a meaningful life. They laugh together, they cry together - as do I. In 200 pages, I walked away with a great appreciation for my own life, a new perspective on living to the fullest, and a great respect for Morrie and the grace and dignity with which he spent his final weeks.

Don't mistake this for one of those self-help "books that will change your life" - it's not. Morrie simply exists in the pages, offering his wisdom - a true teacher to the end. Morrie isn't trying to be profound or preachy, it's just the way he is - and Mitch simply documents it conversationally. The reader isn't compelled to take any of Morrie's (some would call 'cliché') advice. Although, I do believe it's impossible to finish this book without feeling a small impression of his words. For me, the impression was large, and Morrie's words will stick with me for some time.

Do yourself a favor and listen to the audiobook, or at least the bonus clips at the end. Hear Morrie's words in his own voice.

Do yourself another favor and stock up on tissues.

5/5

This is wonderful book filled with life greatest lessons that I thought were all touching, especially because it is a true story about a old dying man. Even though this wasn't a pageturner, Morrie's quotes in this book refers to everyone's life, including mine, which is why i kept reading because i always could relate to his explanations about life. My friend Nata suggested this book to me, and even though I am only fourteen, I feel like I just appreciated life a bit more than ever before. Everyone in this world will die, and who knows what happens next, so I learnt that its now or never to do something good and make yourself happy.
I will always keep this quote in mind: "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live". One of the things I learnt about this quote is that people don't accept that one day we will be here and the next, gone. Once they do realize it though, its really to late because most of their life is already gone at old age.
I'm sorry that this review doesn't contain good grammar and writing, but I am writing from my heart about how much I have learnt from this book because it had really touched me.

A genuinely abysmal work, in which a college student condescends to an old man because he is old and the writer isn't. One of the reviewers said it is filled with the wisdom we should all know; and that is true. In fact, I suspect everyone reading already knows what Albom is learning, so that is exhilarating to certain kinds of readers. Not to me.

- Rating: 5/5
- Genre: non-fiction, inspirational, self-help.
- Writing and language used: very easy

- About the book:
This is a beautiful and hearttouching book about author's visits with his former college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

The book is divided into 14 chapters, each of which focuses on a different topic, such as fear, regret, forgiveness, and death.

The author writes in a simple, easy-to-understand style, and he brings Morrie's character to life through his vivid descriptions and anecdotes. The book is surely full of wisdom and insights, and it will make you think about your own life in a new way. Yes, it's thaaat beautiful.

> My favourite chapters in the book are:

1: We Talk About Feeling Sorry for Yourself:
Morrie talks about the importance of accepting responsibility for our own happiness. He says that we should never feel sorry for ourselves, because it's a waste of time and energy. Instead, we should focus on the things that we are grateful for and on making the most of our lives.

2: We Talk About Death:
This is a difficult chapter to read, but it is also one of the most important. Morrie talks about his own death with honesty and compassion, and he helps us to understand what it means to die with dignity.

3: We Talk About Emotions:
In this, Morrie talks about the importance of expressing our emotions. He says that we should never bottle up our feelings, because it will only lead to pain and suffering. Instead, we should allow ourselves to feel our emotions, even the negative ones, and to learn from them.

This book is a powerful and moving book that will stay with you long after you finish reading it. It is a book that will make you think about your own life and the choices that you make.

If you are looking for a book that will inspire you and challenge you, then I highly recommend Tuesdays with Morrie.

Tuesdays with Morrie is like a reality TV show in that the characters and conversations are biographical; the conversations with Morrie were recorded. In the book, a student accidentally learns that his favorite professor is dying (16 years after graduating college) from ALS. Because dying from ALS is protracted, Morrie gets to philosophize about living, and the student is once again a student. We become Morrie's students too. This time the course is not sociology but life itself.



The book contains Morrie's wisdom as he ponders what's really important in life while at the edge of death. Old people used to be revered for their wisdom. These days, youth is revered and old people are just broken down bodies. This book is about being dazzled by the wisdom of an older man. Many times we are. For example, one of Morrie's gems is, "Death ends a life but not a relationship."

All of us speculate what life is about, what our purpose is in it and what is truly important. This book provides one set of answers. What keeps us reading given we know how the book will end? We're all on a course to death's door and at the end we'd all like to say that we lived a life that was well spent. So, we read in order to benefit from Morrie's wisdom.

There's no plot or drama; just a series of 14 interviews with Morrie before he passes. Each interview covers a different side of life, e.g., money, relationships, and common life mistakes we all tend to make.

Over the course of the book, we fall in love with Morrie's courage and positivism in the face of the horrific, debilitating effects of ALS. Because he is face to face with the certainty of death, each day he's more alive--until his body simply gives out. We grieve with the student over Morrie's passing and feel better having known him. Each reader takes away a different collection of Morrie's gems to use in his/her own life. Morrie wanted to be known and remembered. He and his wisdom are. Death did end Morrie's life but not our relationship with him.

This book was very enlightening. I enjoyed Morrie's perspectives on life and death. I hope that I can take a little bit of his attitude and apply it in my own life. This was a quick read and so worth my time. I was very touched.