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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson»rank: 259par: Mitch Albom
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. lt's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling. The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old ... |
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Pieces of My Heart: A Life»rank: 527par: Robert Wagner
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. lt's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling. The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old ... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance»rank: 918par: Barack Obama
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. lt's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling. The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old ... |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln»rank: 565par: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. lt's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling. The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old ... |
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Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings»rank: 447par: Mary Henley Rubio
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. lt's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling. The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old ... |
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A Place Within: Rediscovering India»rank: 714par: M.G. Vassanji
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. lt's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling. The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old ... |
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Into the Wild»rank: 251par: Jon Krakauer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'God, he was a smart kid...' So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, lnto the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's 'Alaskan odyssey,' but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes ... |
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star»rank: 1414par: Nikki Sixx
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'God, he was a smart kid...' So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, lnto the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's 'Alaskan odyssey,' but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes ... |
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Unlikely Soldiers»rank: 441par: Jonathan F. Vance
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'God, he was a smart kid...' So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, lnto the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's 'Alaskan odyssey,' but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes ... |
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House»rank: 268par: Jon Meacham
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'God, he was a smart kid...' So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, lnto the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's 'Alaskan odyssey,' but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes ... |