Title: The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction
Like just about everyone else on the internet I watched the video of Randy Pausch's last lecture at Carnegie Mellon. It was funny and sad and all the other things you expect a lecture given by a really, really smart man who is dying would be. Though I'm not normally one to buy tearjerker "how to live your life" books by self-help gurus this guy is something different. He's an earnest nerd. I like earnest nerds and I in fact am an earnest nerd. I found his last lecture more than a little entertaining and inspirational so I bought the book. I found it too to be more than a little entertaining and inspirational.
He tells a good story and he lives his life well and it seems like he did so well before his terminal diagnosis. I picked up a few things from his lecture and book that I'd like to carry with me to help me live my life a little bit better.
Author: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction
Like just about everyone else on the internet I watched the video of Randy Pausch's last lecture at Carnegie Mellon. It was funny and sad and all the other things you expect a lecture given by a really, really smart man who is dying would be. Though I'm not normally one to buy tearjerker "how to live your life" books by self-help gurus this guy is something different. He's an earnest nerd. I like earnest nerds and I in fact am an earnest nerd. I found his last lecture more than a little entertaining and inspirational so I bought the book. I found it too to be more than a little entertaining and inspirational.
He tells a good story and he lives his life well and it seems like he did so well before his terminal diagnosis. I picked up a few things from his lecture and book that I'd like to carry with me to help me live my life a little bit better.
; "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay")
; "The Year of Magical Thinking")
; "American Nerd")
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