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March 26, 2008
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Book 17 in my 52 books in 2008
A very popular book, no idea why, it's very dull, predictable stuff in the main.
A man dies and goes to heaven. He is told that he will meet five people from his life who will explain things to him. (five, a stupid arbitrary number, which is never explained. What if you lived on a desert island and only ever met one other person?). Once the explanations are over, you, and they, will all be able to move on to another plane of existence.
He duely meets these five people (they're all dead too, of course, and have just been waiting for him). Luckily he is old, and so has many different periods of his life the author was able to utilise, including a spell in the Vietnam war. After each one, we get a 'lesson learned' lifed straight out of a religious self-help book.
Don't waste your time on this sentimental, poorly written rubbish, unless you're really in need of someone telling you that everything will be alright, that everything bad happens for a reason, and that you'll be happy in heaven when you die.
Posted by se71 at March 26, 2008 11:25 AM
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