Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

10 reviews

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

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

jzpaul's review

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

d0505's review

emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

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

mariaviola's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

christinacarrig's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Such an emotional read about facing death and reflecting on life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Death

abbieinwonderland's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

thedandybrambler's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness