Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow - The Last Lecture

Pros: Meaning. Relevance. Heartbreaking and Uplifting.
Cons: None.

Preamble It's been awhile since anyone or anything (or any product) has moved me enough to want to write about it and share it with all of you. But here it is and if there's only one book that your purchase this year, then let it be this one - ...

Pros: enjoyable read with great insight given; pictures throughout
Cons: ending was particularly sad

Wearing a Disney logo and name badge from his work as a Disney Imagineer, Randy Pausch gives, literally, his last lecture to his Carnegie Mellon University colleagues, students and friends just a month after receiving the news that he had but six months ...

Pros: An emotional, touching story of one man's life. It is about living, not dying.
Cons: Keep a tissue box nearby.

... Update below, July 2008 What would you do if you were told you had three months to live..?? ...six months to live..?? What if you had three young children, all under five years of age..?? ...and a loving wife..?? What would you do..?? ...

Pros: contains many useful life lessons and truths, broken into short chapters, easy to read
Cons: reading the words of a dying man

Although I usually stick to chick-lit and cheesy romance novels for my summer reading, I was fresh out of books and willing to grab just about anything on the latest trip to Target. My husband said that he had heard about The Last Lecture on the ...

Pros: easy to read, not too long, very moving
Cons: none except I wish it were longer!

Randy Pausch is many things: witty, funny, kind, compassionate, smart, and charming. He is also a father, a brother, a son, a dad, someone’s cousin, and a pretty amusing uncle. Randy Pausch is also a computer science professor at Carnegie ...

Pros: The book was easy to read, real and thought provoking.
Cons: I was saddened thinking of such a good man with such little time left.

I saw Randy Pausch on Oprah. The rest of that evening, I could not stop thinking of this man. The manner in which he was facing his terminal illness, with such total love and concern for his family and bravery really grabbed my attention. When I watched ...