Would recommend: Probably

Greg got The Last Lecture for Christmas, and I read it as a sort of filler book while I waited for a library book to come in. I have mixed feelings about this book. The first half was more autobiographical, and I enjoyed it very much. The author/lecturer, Randy Pausch is a really fascinating person in how he approached life and his work. The last part was more made up of sound bytes about how he lived his life, full of cliches and one-liners. I suspect they were effective during his live lecture, but in the book, it reads as a corny self-help checklist. In any case, for a book with an underlying premise of terminal illness, it was hardly a tearjerker, which was surprising to me.

I have yet to watch the taped lecture, but I intend to do so.