The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture by Randy Paush is a detailed autobiography written by a man who only had 3 to 6 months to live. Randy looks like a very healthy fourty-seven year old,but with about ten tumors in his liver he's slowly dieing everyday form pancreatic cancer.

As a professor at Carnegie Mellon he wants to give a last lecture (literly.) In this lecture he tells his life from scratch. From when he was painting pictures on his wall as a child to when he and his children were swimming with dolphins at Disney World! Ever since he was a child , Randy was learning new things and wanting to do new things.In his lecture he talks about playing football,having the biggest stuffed animal at a carnival, being in zero gravity,writing a newspaper article in the encyclopedia,being captain kirk. And being a Disney imagineer. Everything he wanted to do and every thing he had accomplished.

This book was a great story about a man who did, about a man who fought against life as long as he could. Randy Pausch a man with only months to live gives this educating lecture about his life.This book will make you laugh,cry,and think about how good this story is. The best part it's a quick read you'll be done in a few days. Randy Pausch did die of pancreatic cancer in 2006.