I got this via audio book, and started listening to it while cleaning house. All I'll say is that I ended up hunched over the sink, sobbing.Do yourself a favor. Read this book. You'll feel more human afterwards.
There's not much to say in a review of this book. How do you judge someone's memoirs anyway? Say they had a good life and I approve? Or, say I think they fail? Regardless of what people make of his attitude, which seem to be the chief criticisms here, I can say that the story of Randy Pausch's li...
"Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.""All you have to do is ask."Great concepts, words to live by, IMHO. I also like his head-fake concept, where what you think you are learning isn't what you are learning at all, it's about something el...
At the risk of sounding like a cold-hearted jerk let me preface this by saying how profoundly touched I was when I heard about Randy Pausch's plight. This rating and what I say about his book in no way reflects on the man. No one should ever be dealt the hand that he was. He was in the prime of h...
Courtesy of The Literary Snob.Sometimes in our world, it is easy to become apathetic to diagnoses involving the demise of celebrities. After all, it was nearly 20 years ago that Magic Johnson announced he was HIV-positive and retired from basketball; he still looks great. So when I began reading The...
Imminent death has a way of concentrating the mind. In Randy Pausch's case, diagnosis of a fatal disease inspired him to deliver a last lecture that will be remembered for many years as the mother of last lectures. Thanks to youtube.com thousands of people have viewed his last lecture. This book ...
What do you mean you haven't heard of The Last Lecture? Have you been under a rock? Go watch it immediately [ link ]. It's an hour of company time well spent.To catch you up, each year at a series known as The Last Lecture, a Carnegie Mellon University faculty member is asked to deliver what woul...
Randy Pausch uses the venue of a professor’s last lecture to show his students how to achieve their dreams and how to make it in life. The heartbreaking aspect of Pausch’s cancerous death sentence lends immediacy and truth to his lecture. Yet the lecture is not maudlin. Instead, it is humorous and p...
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