Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 6/15/2010 + 334 more book reviews

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It's a common exercise in universities to have professors give talks entitled "The Last Lecture", where they are asked to imagine they are dying and talk about what matters most to them. For Randy Pausch, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, it was not an exercise - he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live. Video of his final lecture has spread far and wide via the Internet, and this book is the story of how he came to give that lecture. Full of heartfelt and sound advice on life and love, it is a poignant but unsappy account of his life and experience with cancer, as well as a tangible legacy he leaves not just for his young children, but the rest of the world too, and well worth reading.

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