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  • What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  • Further Adventures of a Curious Character
  • Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
  • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
  • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (108 ratings)

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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
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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.

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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.

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"Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct.' (The New York Times Book Review)

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Awesome

This a wonderful book on Feynman’s view on life and science. Very amusing and inspiring. Anyone who has a scientific mind and look at life with a scientific understanding can relate to it

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Knowing the world through the eyes of a Scientist

This book is an extension of the excellent "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman". The first part is, atleast. The stories of Mr. Feynman's adventures are interesting to listen to, the narrator has done a great job of capturing the feel. The second part has more technical details, but presented well. Good listen!

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Wonderful

The first half of the book is beautiful. The second half is abt space shuttle investigation. It is beautifully narrated. Special thanks to the narrator.

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great read for a curious mind

another great book from Richard Feynman, and Raymond Todd's narration has been consistently excellent.

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in company of a brilliant mind

excellent insights into a brilliant mind of last century
and a noble laureate to Boot

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Interesting Investigation

It started out as a lecture but developed into an interesting Investigation and exploration of rocket science

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The inimitable Dr. Feynman

This is one of my first listens from the stable of Richard Feynman. Having heard a lot and read a lot about him, his ideas, his theories and his quotes - I expected it to be an excellent book and it did not disappoint me. So lucidly written, Dr. Feynman connected instantly with me as its reader (listener). His experience with the Presidential Commission were delightfully presented. The bureaucratic red tapism and the shrewdness of those shenanigans in the capital were brought out very subtly but decisively. Some technicalities were a little dragging but that cant be held against the entire book. The narrator too played a big role in making the book so likeable. Worth reading - listening.

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A very fun listen

Much inspiring and interesting. As expected from Richard Feynman and his other books. Recommend it.

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Great book. don't mind negative reviews

Great book. don't mind negative reviews. Pleasant Narration by the Narrator. Its more about Space Challenger disaster.

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Read and think

All youngsters, before taking up a job, must listen/ read. Great navigation of fundamentals. Yes!

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