Tuesdays with Morrie

A dud, alas, but I've had a good run these last weeks so I shouldn't complain. Morrie himself seems to have been an interesting person, but Mitch Albom who spends the last few months of Morrie's life visiting him comes across as a complete idiot. He is astonished by the idea that we all must die. Astonished by the concept of materialism not being everything. He turns everything the old professor says into a series of bumper-sticker aphorisms (the book is very thin) as though the man's whole life can be summed up in a gasping, "be nice to each other". How depressing. Morrie (a sociology professor who led some experimental courses, protested in the sixties and so forth) died believing he'd never be forgotten. But I doubt he'd be all that happy with this book as his epitaph. It's Walden for very stupid people.