This book struck me as a lame combination of A Christmas Carol and The Lovely Bones. At one point, Eddie asks, "How much longer is this going to go on?" And I felt exactly the same way. Albom asks us to swallow a lot of malarkey in this book. A Blue Man who changes color before Eddie's eyes? People flying around and disappearing in great whooshes of air and color? I did find the chapter about Eddie meeting his abusive father who can't hear or see him interesting, but it was too much like Jimmy Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life". Well, it's a stinky book.