Book In Review

        Wow, what can I say…this book has the powerful impact of a 10 ton bomb.  If you can read this book and not make adjustments to the way you live your life…you are beyond reaching.  The Last Lecture is an overwhelmingly successful book.  It was written as a follow-up to the video that was made when Professor Randy Pausch, of Carnegie Mellon, gave a lecture on fulfilling your childhood dreams. 

         The theme of the speech was very important to him.  Professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer before this speech was given; which put a whole new focus on the direction that the message of the book took.  It is a powerful testimony about priorities and how a person should approach their whole life.

         Unfortunately, Randy Pausch has passed from this world to the next.  However, the message that he imparts on the quality of life will not pass away as long as readers read his book and view his video-taped lecture that is plastered on the internet.

          How would you spend your last moments on Earth if you were given a peek into how much time you had left to live?  It is all about Attitude, Lattitude, and Gratitude.  How you think and feel, where you are in your life plan, and how you handle what life hands you to deal with—Attitude, Lattitude, and Gratitude.

          Does life feel empty, directionless, unfocussed or misdirected?  Read the book… for which Randy sacrificed some of his precious little time that he had left to spend with his family, or doing things that he valued, to write.  He valued the message of this last lecture so much that he SPENT many of his last moments deciding what to say and how to say.  Doesn’t that make this book important enough for you to take the time to read it and put some of it’s advice into practice?  This should be a must read in high school; so that young people don’t waste precious time in life doing things they don’t want to do.  It is filled with common sense and a serious approach to enjoying life as it is meant to be enjoyed.  Hard work and obstacles are to be considered teaching tools.

             The book, The Last Lecture, was written by Randy Pausch along with Jeffrey Zaslow a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.  It was published by Hyperion books and copyrighted in 2008.  You can check out the publisher’s website here:  www.HyperionBooks.com and you can learn more about the last lecture here:  www.TheLastLecture.com .

              If you are interested in helping to fight the disease of pancreatic cancer; you can go here:  www.pancan.org