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| The Last Lecture | 
 enlarge | Authors: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  814 reviews
Sales Rank: 22
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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| Customer Reviews:
 So inspiring, a valuable read June 17, 2008
A fellow substitute teacher recommended this book to me. She was right on when she said you will become so immersed in this one that you will not be able to put it down. The book is beautifully written with life lessons that were easy to comprehend. Randy's passion about life is contagious and comes from his heart. His jewels of wisdom were inspiring as well as motivating. His thoughts were practical and encouraging, causing me to do some soul searching. Randy reflects warmly on his childhood and his parents and is a man who dearly loves his wife and children. He also came across as genuine knowing he had personality issues that he must work on. He shares his values of being honest, working hard, valuing others and making your life count.
I especially enjoyed his thoughts on what we are teaching future generations by coddling them. He is an advocate of delivering honest feedback and providing constructive criticism in order to promote children being able to realize their full potential. His theories and ideas are compatible with mine, as I face having my first child and want to provide the very best that I can in the way of instruction to foster growth. Several thoughts he shared and lessons he gave have impacted me and have changed the way I will handle things in the future.
I recommend this book to all school teachers as well as those who are facing a terminal illness and need inspiration.
 Pausch writes for the Privileged June 17, 2008
30 out of 92 found this review helpful
Well this is the kind of book to share. I used it for my students. It is inspiring and wonderful. It can be applied to many situations. However, it seems like the dying professors writing best sellers (Tuesdays with Morrie) is like a new fad. While his insights and sharing is so right on target - what gets me is that he has the privilege to think and live these last days with such integrity and grace. In much of the USA people do not have this privilege. They are too worried about pain and how to pay the bills. They can't be writing best sellers and thinking such profound lofty thoughts. They are just trying to get by and die the best way they can. They are trying to live each moment. Pausch gives us the focus on learning to live while dying, but I think there needs to be some appreciation that he is a person of privilege writing for people of privilege.
 A touching story by a brave man June 17, 2008
This book is an interesting story by an interesting man. I cant imagine having a terminal illness with months to live let alone writing a book about it. Randy is a brave and courageous soul and I pray that his family finds peace in his passing . Perhaps if each of us lived each day as our last, not consumed with ourselves but with those we love and cherish, Randys last lecture will have been a success.
Last Lecture Review June 16, 2008
Very personal and profound insight into life and the story of one man who is facing death. It reveals some more of the story behind the Last Lecture given at Carnegie Mellon by Randy Pausch. Great book.
A message for all of us. June 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A beautifully written book. Randy Pausch is leaving a treasure for his children.
I could not put the book down. It brought tears to my eyes.
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