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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: Everyone should read this book! Even though I was familiar with Mr. Feynman, I had to continually keep reminding myself that this person was real, and that this was not some fictional character!If you've read "The Mad Scientists Club" (which is indeed fiction), you'll appreciate this grown-up and 'for real!' book. Intel's Andy Grove has nothing on Feynman when it comes to 'Balance', as this book so humorously points out, time and time again.
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Summary: THE LIFE OF A GOOF
Review: From fixing radios as a kid to winning the Nobel prize in physics, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman covers Feynman's life and adventures in chronological order. I liked when Feynman asks for a map of a cat (he really wanted a zoological chart of a cat). I thought the book was really funny and enjoyed how no parts of the book are really sad. Feynman acts like a child testing how much he can get away with.
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Summary: Unusually Entertaining
Review: Don't be misled into thinking the "Curious" in the sub-title of this book means "strange." The word is meant to be taken literally, for indeed Feynman was curious about everything in the world around him. Surely one of the most gifted physicists of our time, Feynman won the Nobel proze for Physics in 1965. Feynman talks about boyhood adventures fixing radios, and then goes on to speak about his work on the Manhattan project, his meetings with Bohr, Einstein and Oppenheimer, and various other adventures in his personal and professional life. This book will have you laughing out loud even if you do not understand anything about quantum mechanics. Especially interesting is the chapter titled "Safecracker meets Safecracker."
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Summary: A must read for those who plan to go into Physics..
Review: I strongly urge all those who plan to go into physics to read this book, it is an absolute must. Feynman epitimizes the eccentricity and childlike curiousity that all physicists have. The book is absolutely inspirational!!
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Summary: This book shows why physics is so funny.
Review: This book is one of the most and the best reviewed in amazon. Feynman life has fancied hundred of people, included myself. Once I started with him I could`t stop with the rest of his books. This one is splendid. Read other reviews and you will ask amazon to deliver your copy.
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Summary: I have read this book atleat a zillion times!!!
Review: I first bought this book way back in 1988 - an abridged version in a magazine had me intrigued. A book that chronicles the life of a genius in short humourous incidents - it would be too simple to call them anecdotes - sets you wondering about life. Feynman makes Physics seem fun and obtainable to everyone. He takes his genius for granted and sees nothing extraordinary in it. In fact he refers to Einstein and other famous scientists as "monster minds" - totally unaware that he belongs to the same category. An unusual style for an autobiography, "Surely You're joking..." will have you reading and laughing and get you curious...
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Summary: This will be a book that you can't keep!
Review: Because you keep giving your copy to everyone you know!
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Summary: This book is the best ever.
Review: This books is the best book I have ever read. After reading this book, Mr. Feynman became my role model. I recomend this book to anyone.
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Summary: 'So, Physicists Are Not All Boring, Mr.Feynman'
Review: Physicist, bongo player, safe cracker, artist... This collection of stories is a delight. Richard Feynman's enthusiasm for everything he did ( with maybe the exception of learning Japanese ) shines through. These stories are wry and funny and come some way to explaining the great character that was Richard Feynman. Nothing for him was ever boring and no problem was ever trivial or uninteresting. In these stories, his love of life along with his awe and reverence of Nature shines through and by that light we, perhaps, glimpse genius.
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Summary: Learn even more of Feynman - A Life with Integrity
Review: Feynman challenges the Challenger Commission Inquiry (pun intended) with an in-your-face, simple demonstration of thermal expansion/contraction for the O-Ring seals. Wasn't he the only one of this select group not kowtowing and susceptible to employment retribution [NASA, Ride, et al.]? Imagine if everyone actually said it as it is? Feynman, in a bar, says he'll buy a woman drinks (after first being asked to by her) only if she first agrees to bedding w/him afterwards. Conditions point blank. Cold. No silly games. Too intelligent and life's too short. Feynman had great disdain for affectation: a pope's gown, military bars & stars, long titles. I don't recall the book giving you all of this, but you do get a very refreshing insight into a real person - Dr. Richard P. of Rockaway. And you know that question: Of all the people ...whom would you like to have a dinner with? Sorry, D-Cups.
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