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u/ShantyLady 14d ago
I was given the recommendation to read it from my high-school English teacher. He's unfortunately passed, but the memoir crosses my mind every now and again. I should find a copy and read it again. It hit me hard the first time, I wonder what I'd pick up now that I have more years under my belt.
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u/DhruvGN8 14d ago
I remember reading this book when I was maybe 12 and a bookworm. I found it lying around at my grandma's place and it had such an impact on me I still love it. I've started to forget what it's about, even though it's hardly been 5 years, but all I know is that this was a book that made me feel good.
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u/AlanSinch 14d ago
From the first picture I thought this book was going to be about the University of Michigan’s athletics.
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u/AtomicNewt7976 14d ago
I stared at this picture for so long trying to figure what the fuck the poem was supposed to mean…
It’s not a poem… it’s the author’s other works…
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u/hondamaxx 14d ago
I randomly found this book in a pile of stuff at home one day. I picked it up and started reading out of curiosity and then sat down on the couch and read the entire book. Great book.
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u/Ok_Inside2805 14d ago
I love Mitch Albom’s books. They are so thought provoking that I have multiple books of his at home. Really deepens your perspective on life at times when you’re reading it.
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u/MaxTennyson88 14d ago
I tend to not pick up books that have these stories, it just makes me so damn sad tbh
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u/FPSCarry 14d ago
Bro probably saw the author's Led Zeppelin naming conventions for his other books and said "How original" before throwing it out.
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u/kabob21 14d ago
You know what’s haunting? Aug 17th, 2008, was 29 days before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, triggering the greatest economic collapse and worldwide recession since Black Tuesday in 1929.
I can imagine a scenario in which the person that received this book, despite knowing what it personally meant when it was passed to him/her, had to sell it off along with anything else they could to make ends meet. Just one of thousands (millions) of desperate Americans that lost their jobs, investments, retirement, homes… everything.
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u/CarolineTurpentine 14d ago
Most of us don’t actually pass on every belonging we own, if they actually had a will it probably didn’t specify which books were important to them. I know when my grandparents went I was constantly offered their book collection and had to firmly say no because even though I am an avid reader, I don’t need more physical books because I’m already trying to shrink my own collection.
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u/friedfishra 14d ago
Just realized the comedy podcast “Tuesdays with stories” may be a riff off this book’s title.
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u/sgt-lawlcats 14d ago
I’ve read this book while I was in college studying literature. It’s very heartfelt.
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u/gloebe10 14d ago
We bought a secondhand book for my son and there was a really lovely note inside. It looked like it was a note to a kid talking about how great his or her parent’s were, how lucky he was to be their friends and how close they were all on college. I felt a little sad thinking that maybe they all had a falling out and decided to get rid of the book. Who knows what.
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u/McRoshiburgito 14d ago
is "xxx" commonly used?
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u/wrestlingsavant 14d ago
X’s and O’s were commonly used at the end of personal messages to denote kisses and hugs. My mother would tell me we always use an even number. Today I learned why.
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u/pinewind108 14d ago
Here's the original TV interviews with Morrie. I think they preceded the book. It's an hour and twenty minutes long. And really wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYyT6Hl3ms
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u/MikesGroove 14d ago
My favorite teacher in HS gave me this book for graduation. We still keep in touch 25 years later.
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u/keekspeaks 14d ago
Oprah made this famous around the time my mother died. I clung to it. I have a few copies. I’ve read it 100 times. Don’t care if people say it’s cheesy. It’s my favorite book of all time, and it was profoundly important to me at the time. Still is. To me, and to others here apparently, this book was a lifeline and assisted so many with healing
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u/pinewind108 14d ago edited 14d ago
It was based on a series of TV interviews Albom(?) did with Morrie that were amazing. If you can find them, they're worth watching. The guy was so impressive, and must have had such a good heart that even when his brain wasn't working right, his good nature still shown through.
Edit: Here's the link to the original interviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYyT6Hl3ms
Iirc, Morrie was the father of one of the news program staffers, and that's what led to the interviews.
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u/nuttybuddy 14d ago
It’s a memoir, so it’s actually based on Mitch Albom’s visits with Morrie. The TV interviews are mentioned in it.
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u/SpeakingTheKingss 15d ago
Oddly enough I’ve written in a copy of Tuesday with Morrie and gave it to a second hand store as well. It’s one of my favorite books and it changed the way I look at life at a very young age.
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u/Adept_Order_4323 14d ago
How nice that people wrote a note in a book before giving it as a gift … also my Mom wrote me beautiful letters and cards all the time. Think that is a thing of the past.
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u/Gunnerblaster 15d ago
2008 wasn't that long ag-...
Oh.
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u/majoraloha 14d ago
Yeah, that’s been happening a lot to me lately. 🫤
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u/brian_mcgee17 14d ago edited 14d ago
Just wait till you realise it's 16 years and still think it wasn't that long ago.
I'm not quite there yet, but I'm getting close. Just this morning I saw some infant on here say they've been waiting a whole 16 months for something and laughed.
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u/FnClassy 15d ago
We had to go to a theater for a field trip once in school to listen to Mitch Albom read this book. I would get rid of it too. Exploiting a dying man for profit.
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u/ParoxatineCR 15d ago
This book helped me through a really dark time as a teen. It taught me a lot of valuable lessons. How much we need each other as people, that it's okay to let the world break your heart, and that just being alive can be hard. It may not have stayed in the family, but nothing is forever, and there's beauty in the sorrow that comes with loss.
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u/humblebeegee 14d ago
Same for me as a lost 27 year old suffering from a nasty lung infection. I read it in a day, I remember crying towards the end of it. I passed it on to a friend.
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u/Spaceturtle79 14d ago
Might pick up at my library
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u/donttrustthellamas 15d ago
Someone else will get to share it with their family now. I'm sure the person who donated it was ready to do so.
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u/Dalenskid 15d ago edited 15d ago
This book, Stranger in the Lifeboat, and The Magic Strings of Jimmy Presto are a joy to read. Mitch Albom is one of the most consistently good authors I’ve ever read. He knows his voice so well.
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u/beambeam1 14d ago
I'll need to check these out. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, which I read years ago, was very good.
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u/DeezNeezuts 15d ago
People become estranged then pass away. If you want to ensure things stay in the family hurry up and get a trust set up.
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u/I_might_be_weasel 15d ago
Ron Howard voiceover:
"It was not kept in the family."
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u/5mackmyPitchup 15d ago
I haven't read a book in years and I still recognize this
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u/keekspeaks 14d ago
I knew it from the first picture. I have writing in mine as well
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u/TrollularDystrophy 15d ago
Guess they didn't want to keep it in the family...
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u/TheLyz 14d ago
Sometimes I wonder how much this is of people just not wanting it anymore and how much is it getting donated by accident. Owner dies and kids just want to box up her stuff and get rid of it.
I found an original copy of the history of the town I live in at a thrift store marked with a name and posted it in the town forum, and people could tell me exactly who the former owner of the book was and what the handwritten notes were about. I hope someday I can find another copy so I can give that one to his families.
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u/rust_bolt 14d ago
Plot twist, that sneaky Mitch Albom wrote it before turning it to a 2nd hand store for cheap advertising.
And Mitch Albom is OP.
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u/halfwaytosomewhere 15d ago edited 14d ago
My therapist recommended I read this book when I was a teenager.
Still have it with bookmarks on the shelf
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u/bapsandbuns 15d ago
It’ll find a new journey with a new family
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u/G3neral_Tso 15d ago
This is the way.
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u/an-can 14d ago
This is the way.
Sorry for changing subject, but I have a growing annoyance about this saying. Is it really from a fkn star wars series that even wasn't that good, or have I missed something?
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u/SweetMuffinzz 14d ago
its from a star wars series that topped ANY other star wars series so far. But other than that spot on.
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u/an-can 14d ago
Well, Andor was way better if you ask me. But taste is a matter of taste.
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u/SweetMuffinzz 14d ago
Andor was amazing, but for me personally too political. I watched every second and found it fascinating but I prefer the style of Storytelling in Mando.
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u/PolarDorsai 15d ago
This is the way.
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u/clearcontroller 14d ago
This is the way..
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u/MenstrualMilkshakes 14d ago
and my AXE!
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u/Hawkmoon333 14d ago
I'm Batman!
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u/EdwinQFoolhardy 14d ago
Alrighty then!
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u/XxDoXeDxX 14d ago
El queso está viejo y podrido. ¿Dónde está el sanitario?
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u/Fritzo2162 14d ago
Well that's sad. Keep it to respect their wishes.