Helpful Score: 18
I loved this book. I can't imagine a better book for giving to someone who thinks that their life doesn't matter. It will definitely change you and make you realize that " to someone you may be the world".
Helpful Score: 14
No matter what your personal belief of the after life is, you can still digest some moral and philosophical lessons contained within this short and easy to read book. "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" points out the inter-connectedness of people. Allowing us to look back on our actions and hopefully understand the domino effect of these actions.
Helpful Score: 13
This is a quick, easy read. Absolutely engrossing, about an ordinary man with an average, mundane life. He finds out after he goes to heaven how meaningful his life really was, as well as finding answers to questions that have haunted him all of his life. Fantastic introspect into an everyday average life and those who intersect with our lives affecting us in some way, sometimes knowingly and sometimes unknowingly. Great novel about the journey of our body & soul.
Helpful Score: 10
Not much to do with heaven exactly but more to do with the five people that had an impact on his life and the way he impacted theirs. It makes you wonder what people will remember you for , after your gone.
Helpful Score: 8
Surprisingly, my elder son (college age) who claims not to believe in heaven or God and knows my personal emotional tug of war with my mother on "church", gave me this book. That shows to me that this book can touch people of all ages and beliefs. What happens when we die? Where do we go? These are questions we all wonder about some time in our lives. I think that most important of all is the question - "did my life make a difference?" This is the question that this book talks about through the fictional life of an ordinary man who never achieved "great" things or lived up to his idea of potential. This book tries to convey that a life does have meaning far beyond what one might expect or imagine. We are all stepping stones in life's pathway or keys to a lock in time and not always to people we'd expect to affect. So I've taken the message to be one of everyone does matter and we are instrumental in many of the least expected ways. The book is very easy to read and takes very little time. It is well-written - almost like a play in many ways. It has no religious leanings. But it is VERY philosophical in a very sweet way. Most people will shed tears when they read this if they are open to the message the author tries to convey. But they are happy tears.
