Be prepared for more tales of love and life in this sequel to the best-selling “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
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 its many tales—some funny, others intensely moving—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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James Gleick - The New York Times Book Review
Feynman’s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages.
James Gleick - New York Times Book Review
Feynman’s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages.
Peter Gorner - Chicago Tribune
One final, welcome jolt from Mr. Feynman…There are a great many things for all of us in this book.
San Francisco Chronicle
There is nothing obtuse or difficult about [this] book. Indeed, Feynman’s rendering of such a potentially complex subject as the Challenger disaster is straightforward, lucid, and accessible.”
New York Review of Books
One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century…[He] was also stubborn, irreverent, playful, intensely curious and highly original in practically everything he did.
Bettyann Kevles - Los Angeles Times
A gentler book [than “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”], and for those interested in the man, a more substantial one.”
