A review by ashley729
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

5.0

Oh, this book was beautiful, I truly think everyone would take away something by reading it. Randy had been planning on giving a “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon and while trying to come up with a topic to speak on he is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. With a lovely wife, an amazing job, and three young children he is living out everything he has ever wanted and now he won’t be able to enjoy it. Through his lecture he decides he will leave a bit of himself for his children to refer to once they are older and he is gone. Through his book we hear snippets of the lecture as well as his life story and the reasoning behind the stories he tells in the lecture. It’s beautiful, funny, inspirational, charming, emotional and just some really good kernels about what really matters in life. My heart ached throughout, I already knew he wasn’t going to live, but reading the emotion in his words made my throat tighten up. He leaves behind a beautiful family and a beautiful legacy, his life touched so many and his lecture continues to live on (grab tissues before you watch!).