Customer Rating: Summary: Get the audio version Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: The Last Lecture Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Gift for my wife Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: The Last Lecture Comment: eh...it's okay. I guess I had more expectations from seeing Randy on TV and all the hype...etc. Fell short. Great guy, though. Customer Rating: Summary: Deep thinking for shallow people Comment: The Boss tortued us with the video of this clown (oh - so sorry - I know he's dead) with all of the deep thinking of a drunk at 2 am.
gee - dream big dreams. how original.
gee - I love my kids. BIG DEAL. everyone loves their kids.
gee - I am going to die. I figured that out when i was about, 9 or 10 years old, kind of freaked me out.
I got over it.
this was the biggest waste of an hour and 18 minutes of my entire life.
there was NOTHING in the lecture that anyone with a brain cell did not figure out when they were a teenager.
"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.
