The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is a fantastic memoir. It discusses his fight with pancreatic cancer and his desire to live his life to the fullest despite his diagnosis and knowledge he had only a short time to live.

It is a life lesson on an approach to life and death and milestones in his life and what he learned from them.

Lastly, it is indeed about his fulfillment of a Carnegie Melon tradition of delivering ( A Last Lecture) to the students, in which he discusses his lifelong desire to live dreams as possible. Very much in the tradition of Mitch Albums, Tuesdays With Morrie on how to live one’s life, I encourage fans of that to read this memoir. ( )

When Randy Pauch, a computer science profesor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it was 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. It was everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

So good. Very inspirational. ( )

Do yourself a favor: watch the lecture on YouTube first. Then decide if you want to read this, because 90% of the book is contained in that recording. ( )

This is an excellent book that everyone should read. The author encourages everyone to live life to the fullest and to achieve their childhood dreams. Loved it! ( )