It is a very popular book (currently) written by the author Randy Pausch.The author was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was asked by his school to deliver a "last lecture" [in fact, his lecture was taped and spread on YouTube]. These lectures are traditional speeches where a teacher tells the audience what knowledge he'd want to impart if he was going to die soon. Since Randy was in fact going to die soon, it made the meaning much more powerful to him. He was then asked by the avid audience to write a book to add to the lecture - this book.
[This book is hard to explain, so excuse me if my synopsis doesn't make sense :(]
This book is not about dying, it is about living to the fullest by striving to achieve your childhood dreams. Through this autobiography that tells tales of his childhood, he wants to make a point that "you need to have fun in everything you do, you need to live life to its fullest because you never know when it will be taken from you.".
Erm...so that pretty much explains why I like this book. Of course, it is highly recommended! 8/10.
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