tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post115938801868176199..comments2024-03-14T00:16:32.077-07:00Comments on 50 Books: BOOKS: Spiritual Awakening for DummiesTammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-86342186646182118712007-03-15T22:15:00.000-07:002007-03-15T22:15:00.000-07:00I have to agree with you on "The Five People...". ...I have to agree with you on "The Five People...". I was given this book as an Xmas present from a family member. This person said they read the book and it meant a lot to him and he really wanted me to read it. I finally started, and I must say, I am struggling to get through it. I find it trite and very poorly written. I also believe that not everything happens for a reason. There are some things we can't make sense of no matter how we try. This seems to be a book for those who desperately need to be reassured that there's a meaning, a heaven, an answer for everything, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1161971810085179632006-10-27T10:56:00.000-07:002006-10-27T10:56:00.000-07:00Ok, I knew I liked you. I couldn't exactly articu...Ok, I knew I liked you. <BR/><BR/>I couldn't exactly articulate it very well in book club, but I thought this book was the most overrated thing I'd ever read. <BR/><BR/>At least other books I've read and found distasteful, such as The Notebook, didn't pretend to be something they weren't. Didn't pretend to have insightful hidden messages. <BR/><BR/>I didn't like Tuesdays with Morrie much, but this one was most definitely work.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, Mitch, but I'm done with you. But I'm darn impressed with how you manage to sell so many books.Anitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027900535249246388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159839825079139232006-10-02T18:43:00.000-07:002006-10-02T18:43:00.000-07:00You don't like to slag books? Gotta read some Dor...You don't like to slag books? Gotta read some Dorothy Parker, babe.venithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09204791424822324522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159805012123915962006-10-02T09:03:00.000-07:002006-10-02T09:03:00.000-07:00Albom did co-write a song with Warren Zevon, so he...Albom did co-write a song with Warren Zevon, so he's not all bad.<BR/><BR/><I>I also profoundly disagree with the notion that everything happens for a reason. To me, this has always seemed like a safe, facile tool to help us stomach the fact that terrible, mostrous, unspeakable things happen in this world.</I><BR/><BR/>I agree that everything happens for a reason... I just disagree that the reason is often that interesting. Frequently it's trivial. Someone killed by a drunk driver? That happened for a reason, all right: somebody got wasted and criminally irresponsible. There's your reason.Matthew Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01007497367844755093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159640666343748062006-09-30T11:24:00.000-07:002006-09-30T11:24:00.000-07:00Diner Girl says - but more eloquently - what I wo...Diner Girl says - but more eloquently - what I would have said about not bothering to even<I> try</I> to read this book. <BR/><BR/>My general reaction to the scenario she lays out is to RUN FOR THE HILLS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159587878394981942006-09-29T20:44:00.000-07:002006-09-29T20:44:00.000-07:00amen! i totally hated the alchemist, too. but n...amen! i totally hated the alchemist, too. but never told anyone until now. i somehow felt that there might be something wrong with me b/c i hated it so much. ha. i'm not usually a book hater, but it was just annoying!Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00313491935535773253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159581016263528332006-09-29T18:50:00.000-07:002006-09-29T18:50:00.000-07:00This is funny because I just finished listening to...This is funny because I just finished listening to this book today on cd on my commute. All I ask from a commute book is distraction from boredom and a reasonably interesting story, but this was neither. Really sappy, maudlin, and boring. <BR/>P.S. I hated The Alchemist a lot worse than this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159557733207457692006-09-29T12:22:00.000-07:002006-09-29T12:22:00.000-07:00Now that you've ripped on Albom, is this where I g...Now that you've ripped on Albom, is this where I get to say that I hated <I>The Alchemist</I>? Is that acceptable yet?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06942190478322344737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159554760105703052006-09-29T11:32:00.000-07:002006-09-29T11:32:00.000-07:00I feel like I would agree, but I've never read it....I feel like I would agree, but I've never read it. A girl (basically a future extra on a Girls Gone Wild episode) I once played basketball with and another teammate's mother (who was crazy and a prescription drug addict, but that's another story), both raved on and on about Five People and I mentally determined I would never, ever, ever, never read it.katherine m. millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16696088292440895110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159468593690995552006-09-28T11:36:00.000-07:002006-09-28T11:36:00.000-07:00nannie fanny what a hag....Now Jeanette Winterson'...nannie fanny what a hag....Now Jeanette Winterson's 'Weight' I wanted to re-read it as soon as I finished it. Weight, is part of a Myth series so I picked up the Atwood contribution and I threw it across the bathroom. Ya, I'm a bath tub reader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159448690837456252006-09-28T06:04:00.000-07:002006-09-28T06:04:00.000-07:00Is part of the problem that this kind of stuff is ...Is part of the problem that this kind of stuff is so... ubiquitous? I'm not really one to talk because, hell, I read romance novels. But as with just about any other genre or class of fiction or non-fiction, there's absolute crap (often entertaining in its own way if it isn't outright offensive) and there's really great and then there's that vast in-between of Oprah-book-club-stop-wasting-my-time. <BR/>And it's infuriating that that vast in-between is so profitable. Nicholas Sparks, I'm looking at you.JAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07048755178625000282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159418678023182392006-09-27T21:44:00.000-07:002006-09-27T21:44:00.000-07:00See, I liked Tuesdays, but then again I'm a sucker...See, I liked <I>Tuesdays</I>, but then again I'm a sucker for spritely old Jewish men.<BR/><BR/>Here's my own little snarky story: I walked into a B&N for the first time in a looong time today, and the front display table had Albom's <B>new</B> book, <I>For One More Day</I>. And I literally, in the middle of store, picked it up and said just as loud as you please, "Now what in the hell is THIS??" So blogging about <I>The Five People</I> seems almost tame to me. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159412374800711392006-09-27T19:59:00.000-07:002006-09-27T19:59:00.000-07:00I actually really liked this book while I was read...I actually really liked this book while I was reading it. <BR/><BR/>However, I must qualify that and say that I read it a month after my dad died. I was still kind of lost and was taking to anything that suggested that it was all going to be okay. <BR/><BR/>Of course, then I stepped back and thought about it and I realised that, perhaps, that book probably wasn't the greatest book to grab onto. At all. <BR/><BR/>Because it's all respun sugar. <BR/><BR/>Don't get me started on Tuesdays With Morrie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159409361094368032006-09-27T19:09:00.000-07:002006-09-27T19:09:00.000-07:00Yeah, I confess, I have no interest at all in read...Yeah, I confess, I have no interest at all in reading this guy's books, despite the fact that he is so popular. Thanks for reaffirming my prejudices.landismomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328094347362872558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159406978268030112006-09-27T18:29:00.000-07:002006-09-27T18:29:00.000-07:00i haven't read this one - but i have no desire to ...i haven't read this one - but i have no desire to after my run-in with "tuesdays with morrie". i got half way though and couldn't continue because i found the writing so annoying. at the time i felt cold-hearted for not being able to appreciate the sweet little tale that everyone was raving about. glad i'm not alone!Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00313491935535773253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159404049200288362006-09-27T17:40:00.000-07:002006-09-27T17:40:00.000-07:00I used to love Mitch when he was a sportswriter - ...I used to love Mitch when he was a sportswriter - he was on the ESPN Sunday morning show of the same name, which was great even for a casual sports fan like me - but now I just have contempt for the Thomas Kincaide Painter of Dreck approach to his work. How many times can you milk the same idea? Poor Morrie, so exploited.Sweetie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01416965246408509899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159400450352008362006-09-27T16:40:00.000-07:002006-09-27T16:40:00.000-07:00I haven't even wanted to read this book because ev...I haven't even wanted to read this book because every person I've seen reading it is the exact same type -- they love Oprah, they think Rachael Ray is spunky and great, the cried reading Bridges of Madison County, they shop at Chico's.... I could go on for weeks, but I won't. I also won't read that book. Mitch Albom caters to the LCD in readers and that irks me.Carol Blymirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08573307850587096182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159395734940536152006-09-27T15:22:00.000-07:002006-09-27T15:22:00.000-07:00Bravo. I find Albom an incessantly irritating pre...Bravo. I find Albom an incessantly irritating presence, the Robert James Waller of the 21st Century. I like old-fashioned entertainment and classic themes as much as anyone else, but Albom's writing just <I>swims</I> in treacle.Coreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18287835957314437176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1159394432532833002006-09-27T15:00:00.000-07:002006-09-27T15:00:00.000-07:00"We're all smarter than this."False."We're all smarter than this."<BR/><BR/>False.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com