Albom, a hack sportswriter with a tired vocabulary and an inability to string together sentences longer than three or four words, has finally managed something superlative: He has composed the most awful, bathos-ridden piece of tripe published in the last 20 years.No doubt Morrie was a man worth remembering if he could inspire even someone as unimaginative as Albom. But to have your memory trivialized by such a hack must have him spinning in his grave. But Albom knows his market, and he knows there's a never ending demand among the insecure for shallow, overly sentimental books that pull on the heartstrings, and he's delivered just that. The sales numbers certainly support that.If you need inspiration, there are better books, and not all of them are written at the fourth grade level.