Comments on: Book Review: The Last Lecture

By: Book Review: Watership Down

Book Review: Watership Down — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:03:52 +0000

[...] books I’ve ever read. For sheer haunting, emotional power, it has affected me as much as The Last Lecture and Man’s Search For [...]

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:14:43 +0000

Agreed and agreed.

By: Carlon Haas

Carlon Haas — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:46:02 +0000

I absolutely agree with your review. The books is hard to describe. But I did particularly Pauch’s vies on education and his role as a teacher.

The part where he describes his feelings about his kids growing up without him were hardest to rad. Anyone with kids knows the feeling.

By: CFL

CFL — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:09:00 +0000

I wrote a paper about this lecture as part of a class on Authorial Intention and Hermeneutics. It was amazing to see what was originally a talk evolve into a media spanning phenomenon. As I wrote the paper the lecture went from moderately viewed internet phenomenon to a book deal to an Oprah interview.

By: A Life Lesson From Victor Frankl | World's Strongest Librarian

A Life Lesson From Victor Frankl | World's Strongest Librarian — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:06:12 +0000

[...] is like saying the surface of the sun is “a bit warm.” I felt the same way about The Last Lecture, but in a different way, if that makes any sense at [...]

By: Pat Steer (Gaelen)

Pat Steer (Gaelen) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:09:41 +0000

Josh, I read your guest post today at Problogger (great post, btw) and then came here and have been exploring your blog. Your characterization of ‘The Last Lecture’ is exactly right…to paraphrase Pausch in one of his interviews, ‘give me the opportunity’ to be so affected by another book. Thanks for making my morning more interesting!

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:36:27 +0000

I think your two year plan is wise and will be rewarding as your own perspectives change with time.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:46:35 +0000

I remember first learning about Randy Pausch while watching tv. The news announcer said “at the age of …, Randy Pausch has died” and I remember thinking “Who is that?” After watching the story about him I then watched clips of his “last lecture’ on Youtube. I bought the book as soon as I could and I plan to read it at least once every two years until I can remember all the main points. It was indeed an event to read The Last Lecture.

By: Carol Dalton

Carol Dalton — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:19:41 +0000

When I read The Last Lecture I drove everyone crazy telling them about it then. Truly it is an amazing book. I was inspired by Randy’s wife as well as.