Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

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I've been reading a lot of lyrical fiction lately so it was hard making the transition here. It's personal anecdotes as written by Sheldon Cooper with a dose of Raj Koothrappali thrown in. The writing is flat and precise with an analytical bent sprinkled throughout with per-pubescent 12 year old boy that's still obsessed with boobies.

This seems no different than a host of humble brag blogger books - with the exception that Mr. Feynman is a Nobel Prize winning physicist with a penchant for cracking safes, playing bongos, learning to draw, deciphering Mayan hieroglyphs and more. I guess I can appreciate his boundless curiosity and his eagerness to explore, not to mention his firm adherence to logic in the face of politics, grift, assumptions and simply following the crowd.

September 12, 2013