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 enlarge | Authors: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  762 reviews
Sales Rank: 19
Format: Roughcut
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1401323251
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.092
EAN: 9781401323257
ASIN: 1401323251
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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 very touching story October 2, 2008
I originally viewed date line segment with Randy and Diane Sawyer, I was so touched by his story, I ordered the book the very next day.
I am not a reader, however I couldn't put this book down and I had goose bumps at the end of this book.
What an eye opener for everyone who thinks they have such a bad life, you don't realize how to even begin to look at life and how you should appreciate what you have.
I recommend this book to everyone, Randy is and was an inspiration to us all.
Last Lecture, first choice October 2, 2008
Last lecture, first choice, first hand book to improve yourself, one of the last book I would keep in a full-lived life
Randy Pausch; the Last Lecture October 1, 2008
This book is a great book for helping people develope their goals and achieve their childhood dreams. Randy Pausch expertly review's his own life and how he accomplished his dreams and what attitude he used to get through his life. He also directs this book to his children, when they get older, because he recently died of pancreatic cancer and was aware that he would not live long. This book did end up being his 'Last Lecture' for the world. It is and easy and mostly a happy read.
 What Can I Say That Hasn't Already been Said??? October 1, 2008
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon became a web phenomenon. His last address to his students on Life, Living, and Dying was tremendously heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. If you can watch the entire thing without tears you must be Mr. Spock.
I got on the waiting list for the book at the library when I saw that he had passed on. I feel for Jai and the kids. They will miss their true love and father but are fortunate as this glimpse into his soul will always be there for them to cherish. So many others have kissed family goodbye never to return due to sudden catastrophe leaving nothing behind but that last nonchalant goodbye, so with this the Pausch family is fortunate.
The book fleshes out the lecture and provides more insight into Randy's biography. I feel you really get to know him and his family. It is very uplifting and could be source of hope and peace for those in similar circumstances.
It does show us that it is folly for us to dwell on the mundane and to keep on with our normal day to day grind. If the book does nothing else but persuede us to live for today and to not take our families for granted it was time well spent reading.
life changing read October 1, 2008
how revealing for a human being to share the most intimate journey of end of life
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