Tuesdays With Morrie

Posted on April 8, 2005 by sheila

You know, I read Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson and was annoyed. The book was too pat, too easy, too neat. I don’t like neat. I also dislike how he capitalized on that success, and seems to somehow feel it has made him an arbiter of great Truths to the Unenlightened Masses. If I had liked Tuesdays with Morrie, maybe I wouldn’t have been so disgusted by the prospect of The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Ah yes, he writes one hit book and now feels compelled to share all his wisdom in easily digestible doses.

Now comes this news.

(via Book Slut)

This entry was posted in Books. Bookmark the permalink.

9 Responses to Tuesdays With Morrie

  1. peteb says:
    April 8, 2005 at 11:52 am

    “The column was written Friday, for a section that was printed before the game was played”

    Well, he’s an idiot then.

    Did you see the book Amazon have paired The Five People you meet in Heaven with?

  2. red says:
    April 8, 2005 at 11:55 am

    A total idiot – I guess I always thought so, there was always something a bit con-artist-like in him.

  3. red says:
    April 8, 2005 at 11:56 am

    Ah yes. And let us “open love’s door”, peteb. It only takes 7 lessons to open love’s door!!

    God, I despise books like that.

  4. peteb says:
    April 8, 2005 at 12:04 pm

    Ha. It’s about time someone fixed a handle onto that damn thing.

  5. red says:
    April 8, 2005 at 12:16 pm

    Yeah, really. “Where the hell is the durn doorknob to love’s door??”

  6. Jayne says:
    April 8, 2005 at 12:21 pm

    Eeeew. You know, I’d been thinking I should read his stuff for some reason…but now I don’t think I need to keep them on the list after all.

  7. red says:
    April 8, 2005 at 12:24 pm

    Jayne –

    Yeah. You can skip it. I read Tuesdays with Morrie, and that book was like cotton candy. AWESOME while you are reading it, but then immediately following – it dissolves into nothingness, and leaves you with a sugar headache. It don’t add up. It’s all too easy.

  8. popskull says:
    April 8, 2005 at 9:22 pm

    Maybe he was referring to a couple of ex-ballplayers who were watching from heaven. ahhh.

    And as far as love’s door, forget about opening it in seven steps. Just peek through the keyhole and get your jollies.

  9. ricki says:
    April 9, 2005 at 11:10 am

    I actually read “Five people you meet in Heaven”

    felt manipulated the whole way. felt like “they want me to cry at the end of this.”

    I hate books like that. Don’t tell me how to feel, dammit!

    hated it. I keep putting off the member of my book club who keeps saying that we should read “Tuesdays with Morrie” as a bookclub book.

Comments are closed.