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The Last Lecture
- Reading Level: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- No. of Pages: 224
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- Publisher: Hyperion
- Pub. Date: 2008-04-08
- ISBN: 1401323251
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.5 x 0.9 x 7.1
- Shipping Weight: 0.6
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The Last Lecture Review
Source: Product Description"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
The Last Lecture Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 863 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-01-08 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Good Lesson For YOUR Life
Randy was a great guy who passed too quickly thru life. Thanks goodness he was here long enough to pass on this valuable advise to those who still forget (or just don't care) that our time on earth is limited. Read the book. Take the advise. Live. Laugh. Love.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-01-08 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, UPLIFTING
I HAD HEARD ABOUT THE LAST LECTURE AND SAW RANDY ON THE OPRAH T.V. SHOW.
I BOUGHT THE BOOK THINKING IT WAS THE LAST LECTURE THAT HE GAVE AND THEN FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS JUST A RECAP OF SOME OF WHAT HE SAID. THEN I WATCHED THE LAST LECTURE ON YOUTUBE AND I WAS QUITE MOVED MY HIS COURAGE. I KNOW IN THEIR QUIET MOMENTS THAT THEY WERE SAD,MAD AND AFRAID LIKE ALL OF US WOULD BE BUT HE DIDN'T DWELL ON THE UNFAIRNESS OF HIS FATE. HE LEFT US AN EXAMPLE TO LIVE UP TO. I STILL ENJOYED THE BOOK BUT WOULD STRESS THAT YOU WATCH THE VIDEO AND MEET THE MAN IN PERSON.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-01-07 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Get The Audio Version
I saw some of this guy's video and was intrigued. Decided to buy the audio version and listen to it on my annual road trip to Texas. It was a great way to pass the time and have some deep thoughts. This great man will be missed. But at least his words will live forever.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-01-06 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, The Last Lecture
The book (The Last Lecture)arrived in short order, it was in the condition advertised (new) and the price was very reasonable. It was ordered amid all the Christmas rush (although not for a gift) but it still arrived in a very reasonable time. I will buy from this seller again if I get the opportunity.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-01-06 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Gift For My Wife
She hasn't read it yet, but she was thrilled at receiving this book. We saw a TV show about the author that she liked, so I figured it would be a good buy, and it seems to be.