The Five People You Meet in Heaven
讀書樂編號：4724
推介人： 盧碩鈞校友
The book is about a man named Eddie. He was the maintance man at the amusement park near by. Eddie had a difficult life after his wife died, but he persevered. He wanted to work at the park and make sure that it was everything his wife wanted. On his birthday, he was cleaning the rides, and a broken cart was falling towards a young girl and himself. As he was trying to save this little girl, he died. Throughout the story, Eddie looks down on the afterlife and meets five people. All of these people are related in some way. He runs into "The Blue Man," "The Captain," Marguerite, Ruby and Tala. Each of these people had their life impacted both in good and bad ways. Somehow these people come back to teach him lessons about what he did for them and how they made it through it. This is one of the most beautiful books about man's pilgrimage through life. The plot is amazing. I hold that nobody can say for certain what his/her purpose in life is or whether ones' purpose had been achieved when the person dies. Still it is good for us to remember the troubles of our life, recollect the memories of things, judge the impact they had on those around us or on humanity as a whole, and determine whether we achieved what we've been trying to find out in life. Life's meaning is unveiled for us to understand in this book. This is a positively inspiring book. It reminds me of THE VERDICT OF HADES in the collection of stories entitled "THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES." I think at the beginning i had set high hopes for this book, and a lot of the way the book was up to it. But what crashed it to me was the sudden end. It was if the author coulnt wait for the book to be finished and was wrapping it up quickly. It left me a little dissapointed and hoping for a more full ending. All in all however a lovely book that berhaps leaves you wondering.
