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| The Last Lecture CD | 
 enlarge | Author: Randy Pausch
Creator: Erik Singer
Publisher: Hyperion Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  800 reviews
Sales Rank: 616
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1401391443
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.092
EAN: 9781401391447
ASIN: 1401391443
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Amazing! April 10, 2008
48 out of 59 found this review helpful
This is the most amazing piece of writing that I have read in a long time. It is so inspirational. It is a must read for everyone, especially the soon-to-be college graduate. Also, if you are interested in another great read check out: "Prose From A Grandson To A Senior Fellow" by Derek McFadden. It would be a great companion to this book.
 I don't get it... May 13, 2008
47 out of 92 found this review helpful
Ok. Got the book because I saw him on TV. Got to say though, there is nothing remarkable about what he says. On the whole, it is a 200 page resume. It is self-agrandizing and corney. He pretends to be sharing great lessons, but, in fact, he is using the forum to chest-pound and posture. I was greatly disappointed. I expected more thorough discussion of what someone who has just months to live thinks about...
Very Disappointed... July 27, 2008
43 out of 80 found this review helpful
Well, I've got to be honest here...
This book didn't live up to my expectations. They were many sad moments & funny moments, but I didn't find anything in this book that was inspirational. To be honest I got bored with this book. I cried once and I hate the fact that he is dying in the book, and died friday. But I really wouldn't buy this book again or recommend to anyone. I'm not trying to be ugly or mean at all but it just wasn't much to it other than leaving a journal for his family & friends. I'm sure his kids will appreciate it when they get older. Sorry people, don't throw stones at me...
A Lecture on Living May 26, 2008
36 out of 69 found this review helpful
Professor Randy Pausch received an invitation to give a talk in Carnegie Mellon's Last Lecture Series. The concept, shared by many universities, provides lecturers with the opportunity to give a talk as if it were her or his last. In Pausch's case, he had been recently diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer placing him in the position of giving both a figurative and a literal Last Lecture.
Jeffery Zaslow worked with Pausch to write the book, The Last Lecture. The piece includes most of the content of the sixty minute lecture built into the narratives; however, I thought it would have been nice to have the text of the lecture on its own at the end as the final chapter or as an appendix.
Nonetheless, throughout the book Pausch simply doles out the basics of enjoying and living life. In many places the book reads like an autobiographical eulogy, to no surprise, even though it's not supposed to be one. Like the author, I, too, am an educator. I teach, and in fact I demand that my students not state the obvious while in class. To that end, the disheartening part about The Last Lecture comes as much of its popularity stems from our friends and neighbors who don't even recognize the obvious.
It's a shame that people don't think enough to use time wisely, cherish their family, send hand written thank you notes or to dare to chase their dreams, and thus need to be told to do those things in a book or a lecture. I lost my mother to cancer. She enjoyed living long before the two year battle that took her life. She always taught my three brothers and me to love and to give the world more then it gave us. I assumed that simple things like that are expected in that life is so fragile and precious.
Many times while reading I was reminded of the pop song, "Every Body is Free," better known as the "Sunscreen Song." Pausch said all the obvious stuff about learning, living and loving. He fell short of Mary Schmich words set to music by Baz Luhrmann, and didn't admonish readers to floss and wear sunscreen.
 I'm sure I'll get blasted for saying this May 7, 2008
35 out of 47 found this review helpful
Honestly? This book didn't live up to my expectations. There were a few amusing anecdotes, but I didn't find anything in this book terribly inspirational. I'm sure his kids will appreciate it when they're older, though.
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