Tuesday, July 19, 2005
hey!=) i finished reading a book. lalang share. title niya "the five people you meet in heaven" and trip ko gumawa ng book review so here it is. . .
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. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story. 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. Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life and death was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs. Such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. It remains poignant and is occasionally profound. But "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" is remarkable in its simplicity.
patmar » 5:31 PM
