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Summary: Smart Weirdo(which makes him so wonderful!)
Review: The presence of the greatest teacher (both in life and physics) can be felt intensely through this book. Filled with humour(which makes u think that he's god at times) and Feynman's funny style of finding out things just make you keep searching for more. The quest for understanding and knowing never stops.
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Summary: They don't make mad scientists like they used to . . .
Review: This autobiography is a joy to read.Usually books from physicists suffer in their attempt to make the language of mathematics understandable to the public by means of analogies that confuse the issues even more. This book will not confuse the layman. But it'll befuddle anyone lacking in a sense of humor. Perhaps the most important question it poses is what constitutes genius? Or a man of genius? How does a brilliant mathematician go around taking wild leaps in logic and landing on his feet? Apparently having a soul, a sense for the absurd, and a taste for babes really helps. That's an interesting counter to all the 'self evident' sermonizing about genius being 99% hard work , the capacity for taking infinite pains, etc, etc. Of course, one could argue that learning to pick up and score with women in one night by means of letting THEM buy YOU drinks or hanging out with the Nick the Greek in Las Vegas to fathom how he made a fortune in spite of the house odds IS very hard and painstaking work. What can one say? Feynman had a blast. So will the reader.
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Summary: Fantastic!!
Review: A great book...i just could'nt put it down....this book sure will pep you up...a must buy!!
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Summary: I only wish
Review: I only wish that I could have taken a class from Richard Feynman. This is not a book about physics. It is a book about of the most brilliant physics minds of the last century and a good guy to boot. It is a book that I have read to my kids (the chapters are each an episode or incident in feynman's life and are hilarious, touching, and insightful). I can not recommend this book too highly.
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Summary: Light and Enjoyable Reading
Review: In his book, Feynman includes a collection of anecdotes, spanning from his days as a mischievous lad, to his days as an undergraduate at MIT, to his later days, after winning the Nobel prize in physics. There are a couple of boring sections (I found the chapter on safe-cracking to get tiring after a while). And I often found myself questioning whether he was embellishing his stories to make them more entertaining. Nevertheless, Feynman's adventures are very interesting to read about. He describes how he learned to play the drums and bongo, and how he learned to draw and paint. His visits to Brazil and Japan were also enjoying to read about (I particularly like the part where he is in Japan, and is compelled to eat something that "was convoluted, like a brain".) Feynman's disdain for the stuffy and pompous is reflected in his unpretentious style of writing which makes this book even more likable and easy to read. I read that Feynman, after winning the Nobel prize in physics, went to his his high school to look up the results of his old IQ test. To his delight, he scored only 124 (not much higher than the typical college graduate), and is reported to have said, "To win the Nobel prize is not that big a deal, but to win it with an IQ of 124 is a real accomplishment!"
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Summary: Read it, NOW!!
Review: The trouble with this book is you never want to put it down and in the end are left with the thirst for more about Feynman's life in his own words that make you laugh and think at the same time. If you have come so close to this title as to read this review, I suggest you don't waste further time and read it NOW! And be amazed how much can be achieved by a man in one single life in fields so diverse in nature. (Don't forget to keep reminding yourself that he was a genius (maybe an alien) lest you start comparing the achievements ;-))
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Summary: and now for something completely different
Review: I was a bit put off at first at this book's bare-bones, almost anti-literary prose style (not realizing it was transcribed from informal speech), but after a while I began to admire its artlessness. It's really like nothing else I've read before-- refreshingly so--, and I strongly recommend it. Had it been published a century before I would have guessed it the inspiration for Mark Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, for Richard Feynman is ingenuously Mark Twain's Yankee. Read also Richard Feynman's THE CHARACTER OF PHYSICAL LAW, Mark Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, and (while I'm at it) Paul Creston's PRINCIPLES OF RHYTHM.
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Summary: Best book...and I am not joking
Review: This is my favorite book. Although it is considered to by a science book or possibly a biography, I consider it to be a combination of self-help and comedy. The writing style is light, easy and extremely comical. I could not put the book down. But to me, the book was mainly inspirational. Here is a nobel prize winning physicist who tries nearly everything at least once. He tried safe cracking, mind reading, learning languages, different technicals for meeting women, and living life fully through experimentation. I now realize that there is another level that life can be lived. I recommend this book to everyone I know. It's entertaining, educational and good fun.
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Summary: Hilariously intellectual and intellectually hilarious
Review: Richard Feynman is one of those rare breed of human beings whose gift of insightful intellectualism is matched by an equally remarkable sense of humor. This book takes us from his childhood to his professorship days at Caltech, at each turn giving us an honest, down-to-earth, and witty narritive of his "adventures" in life. From his time as a researcher in Los Alamos breaking into safes for convenience to reviewing books with empty pages, you can't help but feel that every day is an adventure for Feynman. Along the way we also get glimpses of his life as a physicist, his random hobbies, and many other aspects of his remarkable personality. This is an excellent read for all, and no knowledge of physics is a prerequisite. Feynman is a very talented lecturer and you might even pick up a thing or two about physics along the way as you read this book. The most important lesson from his stories is that there are always interesting and rewarding things in our every day lives, if only we are sufficiently open minded and critical to observe them!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I couldn't put the book down.... even the third time I read it!
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