Aravind's Reviews > The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture is a brilliant memoir of a life experiences of a Computer Science Professor breathing the near to death moments. Randy Pausch, diagnosed with rarely dangerous pancreatic cancer in the early phase of life recounts the occurred before life events translating into pretty pieces of advices. He is asked to deliver the Last Lecture in the form of a speech to the students and faculty audience ready to hear what the successful person has to speak about.

The book divided into six sections encompasses tiny chapters speaking clear volume of Randy's loving wife and three children. It is a poignant detail of the person waiting to die and how he manages to live a happy life despite the deadly disease making sound of death. All in all it radiates the factfulness of how to lead satisfying life when death is so close in your pockets.

As the chapters move this piece of advices takes up the turn to a phenomenal self-help book. And inside the core of the book is in store whole lot of good pearls of wisdom he encounters with his students friends. The experiences he makes with them bond special and stand testimony to ever required successful life altogether. It also emphasises heavily in chasing the dreams one dreamt and here being getting into the premiere company of high reputation. The hard-hitting point being getting into the dream job of landing into the prestigious firm of Disney where he's asked to do the Imagineering work. This job being quite close to his heart as it breathes love to him.

And there is a remarkable chance to relive the childhood memories spent in the Disney park. The author's description of brick wall simply superb and thoroughly meaningful. Here the brick wall being his loving caring better half wife also the loving job ever protective showering love always despite any seasonal mood changes. The option to lean on someone is the brick wall we have to handover all our worries in adversity. The penultimate section of the book has great snippets of wisdom which one can certainly find helpful in the life times. It is indeed a inspirational read complete with the sense of leading the life happy with goals in the back of the mind.