pickI was not expecting this book to be so interesting. Each chapter goes off in a direction you do not expect. As a kid he fixed radios, his time through college, his wild interests from hypnosis to safe cracking, to exploring different cultures, safe cracking, his art which I had to Google and actually really love.
His misogyny is strong, he drops in that he has 3 wives but never how they met or anything else about the women.
Overall a fun read.
Reading through this and it has some of the best chapter openings. Turn the page not knowing where this story is going to go:
"I learned to pick locks from a guy named Leo Lavatelli."
"I used to cross the United States in my automobile every summer, trying to make it to the Pacific Ocean. But, for various reasons, I would always get stuck somewhere - usually in Las Vegas."
"Once I was at a party playing bongos, and I got going pretty well."
Feynman is interesting, but, with all due respect, kind of an asshole. And he doesn‘t know when he‘s not being interesting.
1. Physics.
2.All through school I focused on biology, chemistry, anatomy and vet medicine. I never took a physics class and I have always been interested in learning the basics just for understanding.
3. Done
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It''s not a bad lecture and it comes with a story about how it was reconstructed. So, it's another labor of love for a man who makes us proud to be human.
It's approximately the same level of material that's in Six Easy Pieces. I think I would've liked it better if I'd heard it before SEP. As it is, it was a lot of money for "just one more lecture".
Get it if you're considering getting SEP. It's a taste of what you're getting yourself into.
so-soIt was fine. Dr. Feynman definitely seems like he was a fun and interesting man. There was a lot of stuff about women that truly has not aged well... but attitudes were very different in the 40s and 50s, when much of the book takes place, and even in 85, when it was released. I was pleased with how openly Feynman discussed sex and drugs, and with how little racism appears in the book despite its pre-civil-rights, immediately postwar setting.
pickIt took me over 100 pages to decide I wanted to spend time with Feynman, but he grew on me (despite the chapter on his "pick-up artist" phase ?). Or, rather, the stuff he was talking became more interesting, as I'm left not really knowing much about Feynman's interior world. I understand his second volume of memoirs is more personal, and while I'm not inclined to search it out, I'll read it if I trip over it. 3.5 ?
"If I'm not actually enjoying it by page 100, I think I'll move on to something else."
That was yesterday. I'm on page 156 now, so I guess I'm enjoying it ?
Am I enjoying this? 🤔
Well, I'm not not-enjoying it.
If I'm not actually enjoying it by page 100, I think I'll move on to something else.
I'm not joking, Mr. Feynman!
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
