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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Further Adventures of a Curious Character

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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

By: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
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 One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. What Do You Care What Other People Think? is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

Among the book's many tales we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.

©1988 Gweneth Feynman and Ralph Leighton (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks Education Higher & Continuing Education Physics Professionals & Academics Science Science & Technology Thought-Provoking Funny

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Why You Should Download This Audiobook: Richard Feynman is somewhat of a superstar at Audible. We have a wealth of material from him, and he's popular with both our technical and editorial staff. He's one of the first scientists to popularize subjects one thinks of as difficult, like physics. This is significant because since Feynman's death, introducing science to the layman has been a torch taken up most admirably by Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene. Feynman's final autobiographical collection contains pieces that are by turns touching and tragic, and not to be missed.

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"Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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I love the way Mr Feynman thinks. Surely one of the great scientists of the twentieth century, if not The greatest. He seems also a very human being who is interested in ordinary things as much as physics which he looks at as all part of the same thing.

Learn a lot from a great mind.

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All I've imagined a book by the genius Richard Feynman would be and much more!

brilliant work!

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quite boring actually, had some interesting points but the story didn't have any flow and was really just all over the place

was all over the place, quite the boring listen

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Richard Feynman has been ‘Explaining Like I’m Five’ decades before it became a thing.

He and a few others have an innate ability to convey the most complicated and abstract concepts, theories and solutions in a manner and language that even I understand.

ELI5

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I enjoyed this very much - it's not quite as funny as 'Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr Feynman', but it's very moving when dealing with his first wife. The Challenger enquiry chapter is fascinating. Well worth a listen if you liked the first book.

Another Great Feynman Outing

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A great mind, humble and self deprecating.

A hunger for knowledge and wisdom that lasted a lifetime.

A great mind

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I am a great Richard Feynman fan, and was pleased to be able to download the audio version of this book. I love his stories, and his attitude. I did get a bit lost and lost concentration during some of the more technical descriptive parts - but overall - a brilliant book

Brilliant man

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Good listen interesting stories. Not as varied topics as in the first book "Surely you must be joking Mr. Feynman" but I enjoyed this much a lot.

I had no problems with the narrator either. Good book

Not as good as "Surely you must be joking..." but good

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This showed me the other side of human, not just the always jokey. Scientist depicted in so many articles.
I Especially liked the story of Eileen his first wife.

Eccentric and relatable.

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I really enjoyed this one, as I did the other one in the series.
I found that his attitude to life is inspiring and something I can learn from.
Also very entertaining.
I like the narration.

Fascinating, inspiring and entertaining

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