![]() PPS: I wrote this mainly to get a few laughs. ![]() It would creep me out, like when that girl saw the fingernails on the wall in Silence of the Lambs. PS: If I dated a girl who had this book on her bed table I would probably escape by jumping out her third story bathroom window. Wisdom is difficult to define but I think I know it when I see it. "Whenever people ask me about having children or not having children, I never tell them what to do." Why the fuck would he? He was a sociology professor, not Heinrich Himmler. Morrie is certainly a fountain of banalities. Learn to forgive yourself and forgive others.Īccept the past as past and what you are not able to do.ĭon’t assume that it’s too late to get involved. In the case of the aphorisms in Tuesdays, I’d say they were pretty lousy fortune cookies. They have about as much spiritual depth as a newspaper horoscope or a fortune cookie. Tuesdays and Eat claim to be instruction manuals for life, or at least imply it. I would say that these institutions (religions and hack writers) constantly violate the airspace of the rational and scientific. The problem is when religions, or the Mitch Alboms and Elizabeth Gilberts of the world start infringing on the domain of the rational with their moronic explanations of the spiritual or existential. There's only wisdom and wisdom takes time, certainly more than the 192 pages that make up Tuesdays with Morrie.Īnswers are simply created by people who are terrified that there might not be answers. I’m sorry folks, there are no “answers” in life. ![]() Any book claiming to explain life's mysteries should set off the alarms for anyone with half a brain books like the Bible, the Talmud, and the Koran fall into this category of snake oil literature. I think anything people read is better than not reading, but that’s all the praise I have for these particular works promising to give the reader the deep secrets to the meaning of life. "Look everyone! I'm reading, I'm really reading!" they shout in glee. They're books for people who claim a book is brilliant simply because they were able to finish it. Both are best sellers meant for people who almost never read. I actually read Tuesdays with Morrie, or at least I speed-read part of it for the purposes of this essay, and I'd read Eat, Pray, Love some years ago, or at least most of it. ![]() I give away lots of books to friends and acquaintances, especially when they come this cheaply. Books in Spain are generally a bit expensive so at this price I'll buy almost anything-even the offal mentioned above. I pass by a pawn shop about once a month to buy books for. I buy books compulsively, especially when they're really inexpensive. Like any pseudo-intellectual dip-shit, I wouldn’t normally be caught dead with pieces of pop trash like those two ginormous bestsellers in my library, but I believe that given my current living situation there are extenuating circumstances. Note to self: delete it now! I’m more worried about someone coming across Tuesdays with Morrie or Eat, Pray, Love in my book collection. I'd have a more difficult time explaining why I have the first season of 90210 on my iPod, something I downloaded for a friend’s fourteen-year-old daughter, I swear. And by the way, that video isn’t bestiality, it’s just two guys in a moose suit-big difference. Learn more at and If I were to die unexpectedly, I wouldn’t be ashamed in the least of someone finding my porn stash. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. In 2006, he founded the nonprofit SAY Detroit, whose operations include a dessert shop and popcorn line to fund programs for Detroit’s most underserved citizens. After bestselling memoir Finding Chika and “Human Touch,” the weekly serial written and published online in real-time to raise funds for pandemic relief, his latest work is a return to fiction with New York Times bestseller The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, November 2021). Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. He has written eight number-one New York Times bestsellers – including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years and celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022 – award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-eight languages worldwide.
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