Seventeen hundred plus people have rated this book for an average of four stars. Not much else to say. I found this book to be overly sentimental, mush with no real lesson to learn about life. An old guy dies; he was disappointed that he had not done more with his life, but he comes to see it was OK after all. It's a wonderful life, Jimmy Stewart, etc. Read it if you must, but there is a lot of better ideas about the value of life.