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Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

I got off at a cracking pace with this one and couldn't put it down at first. Unfortunately, by the time we got to the fifth person I was totally bored so left it for a couple of days. I did eventually finish it though and have to say I was rather disappointed. If, when you go to heaven, you just end up in the same place you were when you were alive, I think I'll take my chances with Hell! lol

I suppose what I was really looking for was some big revelation....the answer. Of course nobody will know that until they get there and maybe I shouldn't have expected too mcuh.

The River - Tricia Wastvedt

Sorry folks, I didn't finish this book.

In the first few chapters everybody seemed to be constantly tired and falling asleep. Then everybody in the village was living in tree houses! But what really did it for me was when the author compared the sound of something frying in a pan to a horse pissing.

I don't know what on earth was going on in the author's head but I didn't want to stick around to find out! lol

Jeanette x

I tried book crossing. Left a book in our local garden centre. somebody took it but it was never recorded on the site. I still get the e mails but they are always in an obscure place in cheltenham, or there is the person who leaves books in glos Cathedral, I always think it will have been removed by the time I get ther, a bus ride and a walk away!! My books were left on the 'library' shelves in the timeshare complex for other holiday makers to read. I read several from there too.

Ann
Glos

Got your priorities right then Ann lol

So you were doing some Book Crossing then!
Do you know anyone who does that?

I get lots of my books, including the Island, from my local supermarket, they have a bookcase full of books, videos and magazines etc which you take and leave 25p in a box that has had to be chained up cos it kept getting stolen. The money goes to local charities and they hope you take the book back after you have read them.
Lizx

Liz, yes we have read the Island some time back, an excellent book. While I didn't particularly enjoy Five People, it was very thought provoking. wont read it any more though because I took it on holiday and left it there with the other books I took. needed the weight to bring home a bottle of Amaretto.

Ann
Glos

I haven't joined your Readers Group as I read spasmodically and have to read depending on my mood, ie. a frivolous easy book or a deeper one, but I wanted to say how much I love Five People. It is very thought provoking and I really think everyone should read it and maybe they would think more about how their actions affect others. It is a book I will read often.

I read a lovely book the other day called 'The Island' by Victoria Hislop. Set mainly in Crete it is interesting and sad, I couldn't put it down.
Lizx

gill, no problem with a late review of course.


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Ann
glos

Review The River by Tricia Wastvedt

A very well written book, beautifully descriptive and well written characters. But I found it a hard book to read. I had to keep checking back to see which character was which at first and found the jumping around between time zones a bit disjointed.
It was a very atmospheric book verging on the psychological with the reader not knowing what was going to happen next.
The ending was totally unexpected, and, to me a bit unbelievable, but that was probably because of the apparent time lapse and the ‘real’ time lapse. I thought longer had elapsed since Anna’s ‘accident’ than it had.
Isobel as a character aggravated me, I don’t know why, maybe she is supposed to. She made me feel very uncomfortable. Anna’s character rang true though as Did Robert’s.

I am not sure I would go looking for other books written by this author.


Ann
Glos

Review Five People you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom

Not a book I would have chosen to buy, quite a small book to read really. Until I grasped what was ‘going on’, I found it very difficult. And strange.
It is a story that makes you think ‘what if it is true?’ ‘Is this what will really happen?’ It could be.
Interesting theory that we touch the lives of people we never knew through the lives of those we did.
Quote from the book I likes:
“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
I didn’t really enjoy this book and will not be looking for other books by this author.


Ann
glos

Five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom

I found this book so easy to read in fact I read it in 5 hours. I seemed to be with the lead character right from the start and thought the transition between past and present was very cleverly done. I thought the way he met each of the 5 people was done very well and I had the fifth person down to 3 possibilities only to find it was someone completely different. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the whole story was very nicely woven between past and afterlife. I would recommend this book to everyone.


I have only just got the River from the library, can I be late with that review please.

Gill

Please review The River and five People you meet in heaven.

This thread put up early as I am out tomorrow.

Ann
Glos