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 enlarge | Authors: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Rating:  495 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
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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Condition: BRAND NEW BOOK NEVER READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 Simplicity, Wisdom August 10, 2008
No earth shattering revelations here, just simple wisdom-- the basic and most important things to the professor. This is good stuff, well written, hopeful. Be sure to check out The Wisdom of Shepherds.
Great Book August 10, 2008
Really made me think about how I conduct myself in my life. Great opportunity for reflection.
 Perphaps there is another message? August 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is no doubt this book is moving, a powerful legacy from a father to his family... and to any other person who may choose to read the book. It is readable and witty, it has wisdom and shows an attitude that we would all be better having.
However, where it failed, and this is not so much the book itself, rather the description of the joureny, was the author's insistance in his focus upon the scientific model. With the statistics against him, the author relied on a health model that could not help him.
Perhaps then the book offers another message beyond the attitude of living each day, focusing on staying positive and leaving a legacy... and this, for me, is it; look beyond what we know about healing from the medical and scientific model when it comes to cancer. Use these resources, understand the diagnosis, the treatment options etc... and then go one step further; Read books by authors who have cured cancer (Brandon Bays, Ian Gawler, Bernie Siegel) and also study Eastern Medicine, prayer and meditation have so much to offer here.
I conclude here by saying the book is a powerful legacy... however the answer to curing cancer lies beyond the scientific world the author lived in. My aim in offering this review is to take nothing away from the book, rather to add to what its readers may be looking for in reading such a book... hope... and there is always hope!
Great read for adolescents and adults August 9, 2008
Pausch's writing serves as a great example of positive thinking under difficult circumstances. I highly recommend it for people that see their lives as "half empty." A great read for reminding us to not sweat the small inconveniences and really enjoy the company of friends, loved ones and having fun in your life's work. I wouldn't necessarily regard it as self-help. It's more of an uplifting memoir of a life cut short yet filled with self-made achievement; teaching us to value what is truly important with a sincerely grateful attitude. I will recommend this book to all of my students.
Goodbye Randy August 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I didn't know anything about Randy Pausch until I started seeing headlines about the Last Lecture guy dying. Then Primetime did a special on him that I had nothing better to do than watch, and that launched something for me. I watched his lecture, and I was really impressed. So I downloaded a sample of his book on my Kindle and got immediately hooked. A lot of the content pretty much mirrors what he covered in the Last Lecture, but there are some added bits that expand on his stories and some additional stories as well. Randy had an outlook on life and death that most people don't have.
The book is written in very easy to read sentences and it flows very fast. Plus, there are some really short chapters, so it makes you feel like you're always making some progress.
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