--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years -- from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge -- so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.
Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his -- and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.
One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.
I dont have the book with me T_T its with by bestfriend's posession in Antipolo. We dont communicate as of the moment. He needs a lot of time to study for UPCAT, ACET and school EXAMs *sob* I sacrificed :P
this was serialized in a local women's magazine. and, unlike albom's tuesdays with morrie, di ko masyado na-appreciate yung particular section na nabasa ko. maybe i should read the whole book..
pahiram din ako!!!!
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it is a common failing to miss the truth of the jest that is spoken in truth
this was serialized in a local women's magazine. and, unlike albom's tuesdays with morrie, di ko masyado na-appreciate yung particular section na nabasa ko. maybe i should read the whole book.. pahiram din ako!!!!
Si ms. naja na lang muna.
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Back from a three year hiatus, hopefully for good. :)
share nyo naman ang tingin nyo eh 5 people nyo. at kung sino sila sa buhay nyo at ano mga kaganapan kaya nyo sila naging 5 people :P post ako later hehe isip muna ako
ey, no prob naman po... nauna na po ikaw sa hiraman. nakapila pa rin nga ako sa hp6 ni Fraggle. 
