I don’t think i’ve ever read a book so quickly in my life! this book is amazingly strange, yet beautiful.
Briefly it tells the story of Eddie an 82 year old maintenance worker at an amusement park, who one days has a nasty accident trying to save a small girl on a ride and dies in the process not knowing whether he’s saved her or not, all he knows is that he wakes up in heaven, HOWEVER, heaven is not what he imagines and Eddie meets five people who have influenced his life somehow or another, who teach him a few crucial lessons about life. Everything is connected is the main point that Mitch Albiom tries to get across, and he does so in the most beautiful of ways! I’m reading this book with the mindset of the Baha’i idea of life after death, thinking about my own state after i pass, trying to get my head around this wonderful concept. This book is almost meditative in a sense and i recommend anyone to read it!
Hm. I didn’ t like it personally (in fact, I blogged about it, so if you’re interested, go read!). I didn’t really get the ‘sense’ that you seem to have got from it – glad you enjoyed it, though!