Rating: 4 stars
Cover synopsis: When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give his last 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 living.
I was in the mood for an inspirational book and I remember watching Pausch's Last Lecture on the Internet a few years ago and thought I'd read his book. It was certainly uplifiting and served as a good reminder to me to focus on what's important in life because you never know what will happen next.
I was expecting the book to be a transcript of his lecture. But it wasn't. There were a lot of asides about how he felt leading up to the lecture, during it and after. I felt the story was hampered a bit by his love of cliches and self-serving details. But I can't really fault the author for that. After all, he says up front that this book is for his kids. And I'm just eavesdropping.
