The Five People You Meet in Heaven

audio cd, 4 pages

English language

Published April 1, 2008 by Hyperion.

ISBN:
978-1-4013-9134-8
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3 stars (6 reviews)

Amazon.com Review

Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person …

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2 stars

The book tries to be an insightful look into what happens to us after we die. Eddie, an old man who died in a work accident, talks to the titular five people one after another and each of them has a slice-of-life type lesson to teach him. What could be an insightful look into the afterlife remains surprisingly shallow throughout, because the stories are only somewhat interconnected and don't go into too much depth. The whole shebang also isn't helped by Eddie having the personality of a piece of toast with surprised eyebrows drawn on it with sharpie.

This is a perfect book to read on the toilet over the course of a few months, or to put on a coffee table. It's an interesting premise but doesn't really give you too much to digest. If it's between staring at a wall and reading this, I'll certainly take it. But …

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Subjects

  • Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Abridged Audio - Fiction/General
  • Abridged Audio - Inspirational/Philosophy
  • New Age
  • Inspirational
  • Psychological
  • Body, Mind & Spirit / Spirituality / General
  • Spirituality - General