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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

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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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About this listen

 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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Editor reviews

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.

Critic reviews

"Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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Great book! I really like the way he thinks about science. I also like this narrator very much!

Very inspiring for young scientists

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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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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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What was one of the most memorable moments of What Do You Care What Other People Think??

The Japanese Hotel scene

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me reflect on how I have often worried when there was not need.
After all does it matter what people think...

Brilliant view on life

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This series of readings is not in chronological order rather it is by theme. It is often quite technical which may put some people off. Personally I enjoyd it more than Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman as I found it more relatable especially section dealing with the illness and death of his first wife.

Eclectic and often technical

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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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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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The listening to these volumes of past trials and errors by the sentient being, the innocently ignorant occupiers of the ever-present now. As R.P.F. quotes from the Buddhist sayings "The key to a heaven is also the key to a hell" I would like add that over the 68 years of my own lifetime of learning and understanding heaven and hell are meta-phisical constructs transformed into earthly structures by the innocently ignorant sentient being. Tom O'Rourke 1953....? love always

Beautiful

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The book is said well and does have some interesting points, stories and ideas in it which are worth listening to but by the end of the book it lengthens out and starts to become a little tedious to read but the whole book in general is worth listening to just not as good as his first book.
This book becomes more technical and is not as light hearted as Feynman's first book.

Drags on but is a good read.

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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.

Always worth the time

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