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A review by riversnowdrop
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
1.0
I don’t think me and ole’ Mitch would get along very well. We appear to have very different worldviews (something I perhaps wasn’t as aware of when I read ‘The Five People You Meet In Heaven’ as a young teen).
I found this book to be… nothing. Uninventive prose; boring. Truly asinine quotes about how to live, stuff that could’ve been written by a fairly non-creative high school student. There was no emotion, no feeling, and I couldn’t connect to the characters at all (despite some themes which should’ve sparked ~something~).
Just a lesson in “having a kind-of-good story doesn’t mean you can write it well”.
I found this book to be… nothing. Uninventive prose; boring. Truly asinine quotes about how to live, stuff that could’ve been written by a fairly non-creative high school student. There was no emotion, no feeling, and I couldn’t connect to the characters at all (despite some themes which should’ve sparked ~something~).
Just a lesson in “having a kind-of-good story doesn’t mean you can write it well”.