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Review title: Foisting this book on others must stop
Product review: Are you among the (too) many who were handed this book by a well-meaning soul promising it would change your life only to discover Tuesdays with Morrie is by turns maudlin, treacly and trite? While it is impossible to dislike Professor Schwartz, and hope against hope that he will beat his cruel disease, it is also impossible to escape Mitch Albom, who is so sophmorically self-absorbed that he annoyingly assumes his shortcomings must also be our own. For those of us who actually spent our growing-up years growing up, I have a small insight for the author: Professor Schwartz's aphorisms sum up the kind of love, compassion, empathy and fair play most of us learn as children, not as gifted undergraduates in a Brandeis lecture hall. Readers who find Morrie's observations startling, stimulating or novel may, like Albom, merely have some growing up to do. May they do so and find joy, but I respectfully suggest they keep their therapy (and this book) to themselves.
