The five people you meet in heaven, Mitch Albom

 

First, there’s Eddie. Eddie Maintenance for the Ruby Pier theme park. Then, there are the five people he’s going to meet in heaven (after he dies, of course).

            Eddie Maintenance dies when attempting to save a girl from a falling roller coaster (aha! You thought I’d tell you whether or not he succeeds, but I won’t – read the book for yourself), and he meets some pretty interesting people. Here’s heaven through the eyes of Mitch Albom: a place where people who died before you wait to tell you the purpose of your life. Then, once you’ve met those people, you wait for someone else, so you can explain the purpose of their life. Then, you get to do whatever you want. Not such a bad heaven, ‘eh?

            The book is well written, and can be used as a small read, just in the bus or so, but the book has a deeper meaning, noticed primarily towards the end of the story. However, there are some disappointments, one of them being the lack of description used; I finished the book and had only a brief idea of what the Ruby Pier theme park looked like, in the sense that you couldn’t get a clear image of, say, the colour of the roller coaster ride or what the people (excluding Eddie) looked like.

            A 7/10 for a short read, albeit a captivating one.