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 Misnamed - Should Be: "My Long Road to Recovery" Nov 07, 2009
I was very disappointed. The short section about Heaven just repeated about bright lights and people greeting you - that was it. Over in a flash. Then you had the rest of the book to hear about a slow, painful recovery from terrible injuries. Not particularly engaging - you read dreadful things about horrific injuries, but it never "pulled me in" to his struggle. What does a long, droning story about rehab have to do with Heaven? Nothing, after the aforementioned short "report" that appeared early in the book. And even that held no appeal for me. I suggest people read Ruth Montgomry's "A World Beyond" to get one person's fascinating "reveal" of the other side. This book just isn't worth reading. Sorry.
 best book ever Nov 04, 2009
i was very pleased with this book. i havent read a book this good in a long time. im sharing it with family
God send Nov 02, 2009
I have owned one copy 3 years ago and bought 2 more from Amazon.com to give to my friends. That is how good this book is.
This book literally changed my life. I learned from this book that there is truly a beautiful heaven awaits for us. After reading this book, I am no longer afraid of death. I learn to be a better person each day and try to love everyone like the author. Most important, I encourage myself to give back to our community. I used to be a very self-centered person. Thanks to this book, it makes me realize I was so lucky to be alive and need to stop feeling self-pity for myself. Fortunately, God guided me to find this book and give me a chance to renew myself. The author has experienced near death experience and got a glimpse of heaven. Now he is using his experience to help people like me. God bless him. This is a book everyone must read to understand life does not end after you die. Your soul never die. I gave my copy to a friend and bought another 2 copies as gift to my friends. If I need to, I will buy more copies to give to more people who need encouragement.
a moving and well-written account, but raises a lot of questions Nov 01, 2009
90 Minutes in Heaven is an account of a minister's vivid near-death experience (NDE) he had after suffering a horrible auto accident in 1989 while returning from a conference. The core of the book is contained in two early chapters, where he goes into depth describing the experiences he had while in heaven. The remainder of the book is a moving, detailed, and well-written account of his monumental struggle to recuperate, deal with chronic pain and numerous surgeries, and get back some semblance of normal.
Overall, I strongly recommend this book. It is generally engaging and well-written, and the deep and fascinating issues it covers will make the reader not want to put the book down. His struggle to recover, and the numerous sources of support he had from family, church and his personal faith while facing what seemed like insurmountable obstacles, make for a deeply inspiring story.
All that being said, this book has one weakness, which in fairness is probably present in a lot of NDE books on the market: it raises more questions than answers, in many respects. I wish the author had provided more insight and details as to his NDE, considering not only his perspective but the likely point-of-view and questions of his readership, almost all of whom will not have experienced this before.
For example, since the author feels confident that heaven is an actual place, where is this place - another planet, dimension, or universe? Did he get a sense of this? What types of clothing were the people in heaven wearing, and what was the nature of their bodies and his? For example, how did they "see" without earthly eyes to see from? When the author looked down, did he see limbs, fingers, toes, in his heavenly body similar to his early one? Could people in heaven fly, and if not, how did they ambulate? While in heaven, was the author conscious of the fact that he was there because he had been "killed" in an auto accident - i.e. did is fully connect cause and effect?
These are less important issues, but there were also some bigger ones not addressed. The author seems to paint heaven as a sort of eternal party or celebration, but wouldn't this get boring or old after a while? Why weren't the people in heaven trying to connect with and help all the suffering people on earth (maybe their location precluded this?) Also, were there sources of struggle, growth and advancement in heaven? Though we are often loath to admit it, one of the things that makes earthly life so valuable is the presence of hardship and struggle, for these are the substrates of personal growth.
In spite of this, the book is worth reading. It tackles one of the greatest mysteries out there, in my opinion - the NDE. As a well-educated professional, I cannot see any scientific reason why ANY type of consciousness should survive death. Yet NDEs such as the author's continue to be reported, and they are not easily dismissed by any organic or brain theories. In short, it's a mystery, and given the universality of death, it's a critically important one. This book is another key data point in the puzzle.
I am A christian...but... Nov 01, 2009
The first chapter was about heaven, but the rest of the chapters were whiny, self-indulgent, poor-me, complaints. I work in health care and I have had plenty of patients from all ages who have NOT seen heaven and have NEVER whined this much throughout their rehab, published a book, and made money because of it. This author whined through 90% of his "inspirational" book, AFTER he's already been to heaven. People end up with fixators every day. I did not go back and check, but I recollect that the author mentioned his fixator and his pain WAY more than God. I have been blessed to see so many patients and families who were on their way to hospice and have so much strength and faith and perseverence, that this author's account of his suffering just makes me irritated. There are people in war camps who have no family around who suffer alone for years. They are tortured and starved and lonely and neglected and they probably had no concept of heaven. This author saw heaven, and then only had pain...no loneliness EVER, no torture EVER, no starvation EVER. I treat cancer patients every day. I would say only 10% of them are whiners and NONE of them feel so special as to write a book about it. They endure pain and suffering and family and career issues. They have children and spouses and families that suffer because they suffer. They have had no taste of heaven, but they believe and
they inspire me. I actually feel blessed that I get so much more daily inspiration from my cancer patients' strength than the author who went to heaven's book. I touch people daily who perservere without fanfare and the special priviledge of seeing heaven.
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