Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!

Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!
Author	Richard Feynman
Genre	Autobiographical, anecdote, science
Published	1985

Own and read.

First read (April - August 2011)

Finished - 24th August 2011

Format

1992 paperback Vintage edition, bought new by myself. 332 pages, 39 lines per page, 27 blank pages. 722240 characters total, giving it 375 'standard' pages.

Journal

One of a handful of books by/about Richard Feynman that I want to read. I think this one is the most often mentioned, but not the one I personally first heard of and decided to read.

Bought from Amazon on April 4th 2011 after reading about the Star Wars: Episode III novelisation on TVTropes.org and deciding to buy it, I'd been thinking of just buying a Feynman book around that time and added it to the order.

Read the first few chapters on 26/04/2011 while at home. Though it was a bit disjointed and strange at first, I enjoyed some of the stories and we'll see how it goes on :)

Update 08/05/2011: Have read up to page 96 now, stories continue to be quite random and not all particularly interesting :P But it's fine.

Started reading it again on holiday in Northumberland, finishing on the 24th of August 2011. There were some good stories and it was readable, but I imagine it's MUCH better to hear him telling the stories himself. Hoping the other books are better.

Rating

1

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