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Loading... Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynmanby Richard P. Feynman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I know, a science book! The husband and I both took the challenge to read one of the other's favorite books and this was my pick. Feynman is a Nobel prize winning physicist who worked at Los Alamos and at many prestigious universities. He is also an amateur artist, drummer, womanizer, safe-cracker, etc., etc. Surprisingly, I ended up enjoying all the stories of the situations he gets himself into, even if I did kind of fade off any time he started too deep into the science stuff. What I liked the most was the fact that is curious about everything and is always willing to learn. (  ) mmillet | Dec 14, 2009 |  Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman is a farrago of relatively short(1-10 pages) anecdotes, told by the hilarious physicist RIchard Feynman. The anecdotes don't follow a strict chronological order, but the parts do generally start from the curious boy fiddling with radios, to the undergraduate Feynman to the nobel prize winning, sought after public figure. Besides it's intellectual stories, the book is abound with tales of Feynman picking chicks up in bars, waking up in a unknown rich lady's house, cracking safes, speaking cantonese, playing in brazilian carnavals and drawing nose models. This book offers a great insight into a real, authentic life of a renowned physicist. This book is a testimony to that fact that fame obscures and overshadows the actual lives of many people. Feynman account goes beyond science, to public issues, bawdy pranks, and how even feynman spent a two years disengaged and detached from physics. Although Feynman may not have been as influential in public spheres as he was in physics, and although people like Bertrand Russell present a more favorable example of combining science and arts, this book relates a very interesting human and scientific story. (  ) RamiFaour | Nov 23, 2009 | Pompous, self-absorbed, microcosmopolitan apology of an academic jerk, with ready-to-parrot jabs at the establishment and appeal to "critical thinking". Please. ( ) Kuiperdolin | Nov 6, 2009 | Really interesting and hilarious! You don't need to be a math/science major to read this book. ( ) mauveberry | Nov 1, 2009 | Feynman reminds me of my uncle Preston Hammer. They were both at Los Alamos, NM on the Manhattan Project during WWII. Both were pranksters. Laughed all the way through this little book. ( ) MarkHammer | Oct 7, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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