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| The Last Lecture | 
 enlarge | Authors: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $7.85
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Avg. Customer Rating:  749 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW COPY, NO UGLY REMAINDER MARKS.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Highly recommend October 3, 2008
I just finished reading a book by Randy Pausch called "The Last Lecture." Dr. Pausch is a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, and last year he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
A video of his last lecture is one of the most popular on YouTube. The book is based on this lecture and is filled with stories of his childhood, his dreams, and his family. Written in a very similar vein as another of my favorite books, "Tuesdays With Morrie," it is funny, inspirational, and deeply moving.
Randy Pausch offers advice to young and old for dealing with life's small and large problems and how to live one's life fully and realize dreams.
I highly recommend this book!
 Trite, unoriginal, self-aggrandizing! October 3, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm very sorry that Professor Pausch has died, and my condolences go out to his family.....but.....I agree with just about every other bad review here. Have all those "5 star" people lost their minds?
This book is so very bad. It should not have been published. They should have let the lecture stand on its own. This book offers no new insight, nothing interesting that hasn't been said much better by many other people. It is drivel. With all the hype around it, I was really expecting something touching and insightful - some real food for thought. Instead I get a resume of this man, and all the "great" things he has accomplished.
I bought this book at the airport, and there was an insert that said I could return the book and get 50% of my money back. As soon as I stepped off the plane, I RETURNED IT! I couldn't stand to have this junk in my hands, and I knew there was no way I would ever consider giving it to someone else!
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.
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