I saw the author on Oprah years ago and loved his message...very powerful. Then I bought the book for afriend for her birthday because she's into these kinds of genres. Yet, I had still not read it. Then I finally borrowed it from the library. I was tearing up all throughout it, knowing what his fate was by that time. Very moving, inspiration book.

this is a book about living! A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture". Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same queston: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave - Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams- wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment ("because time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have les thajn you think").