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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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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.
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- LilyRose
- 15-12-13
Another Great Feynman Outing
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.
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- mollyeyre
- 22-04-13
Brilliant man
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
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- Dimitrios Kommas
- 11-01-23
Interesting in general but very specific to NASA stuff
I liked it , especially the first part of it.
I found the NASA stories a bit boring as it is not my area of interest. I wish there were shorter…
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- Bede
- 15-11-22
Always worth the time
Whatever he was doing spending time with Richard Feynman and his mind is worth the time.
It’s not as funny or long as You Must be Kidding, but it’s still a great experience that should get your grey cells buzzing with ideas and anecdotes to share.
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- John
- 11-10-22
All Engineers & politicians should listen to this
It should be compulsory to read or listen to this. Of course for one group it will be unpalatable but the other it will be inspiring.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-07-22
Material missing
Overall this is great but I’m afraid that at 6.06 in the appendix there is material missing
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- SH
- 05-08-23
A thing of beauty
So much wit and wisdom. I’d encourage all to read it, A glimpse of a great thinker.
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- Klár Ádám
- 20-05-23
Not as good as "Surely you must be joking..." but good
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
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- Daniel B.
- 13-05-23
Interesting topics but awful narration
The subject matter was interesting and the science was technical but understanding without too much dimming down, however the narration was awful!
The words were clear but the tempo was so uniform with short sentences and a feeling repetition that drove me crazy and was hard to listen too.
It seemed like an AI bot was reading it and Feynman’s words deserve better.
I liked the stories d d want to hear more from Feynman but hope they have a different narrator.
I find lots of American audio books are like this so maybe it’s the style, so maybe as an Englishman I just prefer more articulate narration with changes in pace and enthusiasm.
But as it’s a free book I shouldn’t complain too much.
Many thanks
Dan
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- Tangerine_Red
- 25-04-23
ELI5
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.
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