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A review by iris_ymra
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
4.0
'You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over". More like continuing without.'
'...What we give to fear, we take away from... faith.'
'There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.'
'Sometimes, what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.'
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When people in Coldwater, Michigan started to receive phone calls from their late loved ones, whom telling them that they were calling from the heaven. There were two sides on how everyone perceived the claim. Those who wished to receive the call and those who believed that the phenomenon was a hoax. Sully Harding, was on to the latter sides had decided to debunk it, and find out really, who's behind the so called miracle that had attracted the attention from people from outside Coldwater, and in larger scale, people all around the world as the news about the calls from heaven started to spread.
But perhaps, at the end of the day, those who have thought of the hopes are so false are those who will encounter them, when they had least expected it.
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Started my reading and as it's progressing, I had thought that this book could be a fantasy fiction, had anticipated how the author would unravel the miracle, what kind of fairy tale would this story turn out to be. Especially when it involves the heaven of which we human being had limited knowledge about, but what we have learned through what our religion had taught us.
For me, it somehow turned out to be better than what I had expected, the genre, then shifted to criminal I guess -- it's a crime right, to manipulate the technology and used it to even manipulate people's feelings and psychology. Even though all of the events, that had taken its place had reroute the characters' purpose in life, rerouting it to its main and right paths.
Certainly an engaging storyline, despite the rather (for me) a bit slower pace of the plot at the beginning. The alternate -- yet relevant to the whole plot -- of Sully's story in light of all the calls; his wife Giselle and his son Jules, what he had gone through, is indeed tragic and heartbreaking. A great end for me ultimately, with that little twist of 'miracle' at last.
'...What we give to fear, we take away from... faith.'
'There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.'
'Sometimes, what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.'
________
When people in Coldwater, Michigan started to receive phone calls from their late loved ones, whom telling them that they were calling from the heaven. There were two sides on how everyone perceived the claim. Those who wished to receive the call and those who believed that the phenomenon was a hoax. Sully Harding, was on to the latter sides had decided to debunk it, and find out really, who's behind the so called miracle that had attracted the attention from people from outside Coldwater, and in larger scale, people all around the world as the news about the calls from heaven started to spread.
But perhaps, at the end of the day, those who have thought of the hopes are so false are those who will encounter them, when they had least expected it.
________
Started my reading and as it's progressing, I had thought that this book could be a fantasy fiction, had anticipated how the author would unravel the miracle, what kind of fairy tale would this story turn out to be. Especially when it involves the heaven of which we human being had limited knowledge about, but what we have learned through what our religion had taught us.
For me, it somehow turned out to be better than what I had expected, the genre, then shifted to criminal I guess -- it's a crime right, to manipulate the technology and used it to even manipulate people's feelings and psychology. Even though all of the events, that had taken its place had reroute the characters' purpose in life, rerouting it to its main and right paths.
Certainly an engaging storyline, despite the rather (for me) a bit slower pace of the plot at the beginning. The alternate -- yet relevant to the whole plot -- of Sully's story in light of all the calls; his wife Giselle and his son Jules, what he had gone through, is indeed tragic and heartbreaking. A great end for me ultimately, with that little twist of 'miracle' at last.