This was a very interesting book about what Heaven may be like. I enjoyed it very much.

Released on Friday, October 29, 2004 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Sent via U.S. Mail in Tomah, Wisconsin USA.

RELEASE NOTES:

I picked up this book at the post office today ... from prielipp in WI ... as part of a trade.

c. 2003 -- 196 pages -- Hardcover -- a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club -- Accident victims -- Amusement parks -- Amusement rides -- Future life -- Aged men -- Heaven -- Death -- In heaven, life is explained by five people who were in it -- 37 weeks on the USA Today top 10 Bestseller list:
#1 on 12/5/04 and 12/12
#2 on 10/5/03, 10/12, 10/26, 12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 11/28/04, 12/19, 12/26 and 1/2/05
#3 on 10/19/03, 11/16, 11/23 and 11/30
#4 on 9/28/03, 11/2 and 11/9
#5 on 2/8/04 and 2/15
#6 on 1/4/04 and 2/22
#7 on 1/11/04, 1/25, 2/1 and 3/28
#8 on 1/18/04, 2/29, 3/7, 3/14 and 3/21
#9 on 4/4/04, 5/9 and 5/23
#10 on 6/20/04

Jacket Flaps: "All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time ..." From the author of the number one NY Times bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie" comes this long-awaited follow-up, an enchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. 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 an 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, tis is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved "Tuesdays with Morrie," will treasure.

UPDATE (12/7/04): We watched the movie on TV last Sunday night and really enjoyed it. I read on the forums that it follows the book. So I'm all the more anxious to read this!

I finished reading this book on 8/21. This is quite thought-provoking of what if this would really happen ... and you meet people from your life on your way to heaven to learn from them. It would answer some of those tough unanswered questions in your life and help you understand and see things more clearly. Yet, the people somewhat hung in a purgatory type environment until Eddie died and released them. It was very moving and I enjoyed reading it.

Used in 2009 Ultimate Challenge ~ August theme ~ Elements (HEAVEN)

I'm saving this for the book-to-movie bookbox.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

I'm releasing this book in teeney's book-to-movie bookbox to the next person in line ... as soon as I receive an address.

I am taking this from teeney's book-to-movie bookbox.

i loved this book. i read it all in one sitting... i had it for quite a while before reading it... should have read it sooner!

i am sending this to an old friend, who i think will enjoy it as much as i did!