Albom-ination

"Tuesdays with Morrie" was treacle -- but at least it felt like honest treacle. The story of a smart-ass sportswriter transformed into a human being by his dying teacher was the functional equivalent of a sexual experience for Oprah fans.  (You know you hit a nerve when your book is turned into a made-for-tv-movie starring Hank Azaria.) 

Then Mitch Albom really started laying on the corn syrup.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven. ("Reassuring mush about a pointless purgatory," says one Amazon.com reader.)

For One More Day. ("A shovel-full of sugar makes the messages go down" writes another Amazon patron.)

And online, Mitch's Web Thoughts. (Not updated since 9/11/2001.)

We prefer the days when sportswriters smoked stinky cigars and wrote about the fights.