Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

17 reviews

laurenb1917's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

5.0

Rating basically someone’s published love letter to their kids feels weird to rate. This was powerful, highly suggest. You gotta be in a good headspace going in though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Cancer

arrr's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a good quick listen if you're in the right mood and headspace for end of life consideration from someone who sounds like an extroverted neurodivergent boomer who actually went to therapy and had some useful reflections. F cancer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Medical content

shannay_05's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

katred3's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Classism

nickyeager's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer

tinyflame4's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

jzpaul's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

jessspeake's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Cancer, and Death

ejthephoenix's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

5.0

My dad showed me this book when I was in 4th grade. Back then, (of course) I had no idea how emotional this book truly is. When I was in the airport during spring break (at 4 in the morning) I saw a bulletin board that had Randy Pausch's picture on it. This automatically intrigued me and I remembered the book. I wanted to read it again...And now here I am! This book is super funny and emotional and I love every single story and piece of advice in the book. I know it was made for his children, but this book has inspired me so much. It wouldn't be that big of a reach to say its one of my favorite books :) I hope I can be just like Randy and his wife Jai one day :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

maggies's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

This is a weird one to review because it is, ultimately, what one specific man with a terminal diagnosis wants to impart to his three children before his death. How can one rate or critique what he has to say to his children? So with that caveat…Pausch’s advice was often of a certain generation, for example: write thank you notes, work hard (aka long hours), obstacles are there to test how badly you want something. It’s probably a bit unfortunate, but I can’t identify with a lot of this advice anymore and found it of a completely different worldview than what I espouse. Had I read this book ten years ago, I probably would have enjoyed it quite a bit more. On the other hand, it was interesting just to learn about how Pausch organized his life and death and what formative lessons were for him. The memoir-like stories and vignettes earned two stars; the advice, one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Pregnancy and Medical content