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A review by phantom_reads
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
3.0
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is based on the final lecture that the author gave at Carnegie Mellon University before he passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2008. The book contains various anecdotes from throughout Pausch's life providing valuable lessons to readers about how to live a more meaningful and happy life.
This book isn't one I would have typically picked up on my own and I only read it for my English course in school. I don't think I've ever read anything like this that I would consider almost like a self-help book. It's very inspirational and I quite enjoyed ending my day by reading something so uplifting. Pausch does a good job of keeping every one of his stories interesting throughout the entire duration of the novel. It never once felt slow or boring and I was always interested in what Pausch was talking about.
Like so many others I tend to not like the books I have to read for school but I'm happy that this one was assigned, however, I didn't rate it five stars. It was encouraging, but overall not very memorable. Some of the stories didn't even span the entire length of a page and I don't think the lessons Pausch was teaching in the book will stick with me longer than the time it takes me to finish my essay for class
This book isn't one I would have typically picked up on my own and I only read it for my English course in school. I don't think I've ever read anything like this that I would consider almost like a self-help book. It's very inspirational and I quite enjoyed ending my day by reading something so uplifting. Pausch does a good job of keeping every one of his stories interesting throughout the entire duration of the novel. It never once felt slow or boring and I was always interested in what Pausch was talking about.
Like so many others I tend to not like the books I have to read for school but I'm happy that this one was assigned, however, I didn't rate it five stars. It was encouraging, but overall not very memorable. Some of the stories didn't even span the entire length of a page and I don't think the lessons Pausch was teaching in the book will stick with me longer than the time it takes me to finish my essay for class