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This was my first Mitch Albom book. It might be my last though. I knew what I was getting into. Everyone knows Morrie dies at the end. I'm not one for sad stories. To make matters worse is it was a true story. It does have a few good lessons in it. I'm not saying it was a bad book. It was very good. I like how Morrie was portrayed and how you saw how he was even though his body was decaying right before your eyes. Morrie had a great spirit to the end. Maybe I just don't like the kind of "self-help" books. Would this even be in the self-help section? I can see how it could help people take their lives into consideration and change it. This reminded me of the book "The Last Lecture" except Morrie didn't write this. I wonder how it would have been different if Morrie wrote a book about his Tuesdays with Mitch. Wow, I'm a scatterbrain today. 4 stars
I was always interested in reading this series. The books are very short and very easy to read...yep a children book. Good stories should not be saved for adults. Even yesterday when I was at a used bookstore I was browsing the teen/kid section and a young girl came up to me and said "uh...you have a kid eh?" Nope, I sure don't, but she was just so utterly shocked that I read "kid" books. Anyway, I've seen the movie and didn't really enjoy it, but I got the entire series for really really cheap and everyone knows that the book is better than the movie. The Bad Beginning was well written and I love how Lemony Snicket warns you throughout the book that there is no happiness within this book. Although, just the children being able to keep their new "father" away from their money is a good ending in itself. And then there are still 12 more books to the series. I just hope the rest are as good as the first. 4 stars
This was my first Mitch Albom book. It might be my last though. I knew what I was getting into. Everyone knows Morrie dies at the end. I'm not one for sad stories. To make matters worse is it was a true story. It does have a few good lessons in it. I'm not saying it was a bad book. It was very good. I like how Morrie was portrayed and how you saw how he was even though his body was decaying right before your eyes. Morrie had a great spirit to the end. Maybe I just don't like the kind of "self-help" books. Would this even be in the self-help section? I can see how it could help people take their lives into consideration and change it. This reminded me of the book "The Last Lecture" except Morrie didn't write this. I wonder how it would have been different if Morrie wrote a book about his Tuesdays with Mitch. 
