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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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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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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
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"Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct.' (The New York Times Book Review)

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Great read

I loved the book, personally my favourite chapter was the opening chapter, but it was the book of great wisdom

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das ist die Scheiße

I like this book it's my second time though, the first time I had not read surely your joking mr Feynman and missed a lot of the references in this book to it, "I strongly urge".... (scratch that) "I urge" you to read SYJ before this book. Please like and subscribe.
All the crab claws Lindsay.

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Continuation…

…having Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman in my audible library makes this a pleasant listen, although after the laughter of Arlene’s presence in the book it became correspondence.
And am still believing the character of Sheldon Cooper is based on Richard Feynman.
Thanks for your letters Mr Feynman, your collection of words Ralph Leighton and your narration Raymond Todd, much appreciated gentleman. :-)

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The narrator was clear but I was expecting to hear someone who sounded more like Richard Feynman. It would have been better if I could at least trick myself into believing I was listening to Feynman. However, after making it to the epilogue, it made the whole book worth listening to.

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Spectacular Fiction, narrator appears to understand his scope

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Knowing the mind of a Genius is no small feat,
Recommended.

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mostly about the space shuttle investigation

if you're only going to listen to one Feynman book, then I would recommend "Surely you're joking mr Feynman" but this is a fine continuation of that book.

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Good stuff

As a scientist I really identify with a lot of what Fineman says in this book. I also really like how down to Eaeth he is.

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Was alright

Fan of Feynman. Was alright. Listened and prob missed a lot but it wasn’t super engaging

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