Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

“Sir, what will you have with your tea? Cream, or Lemon?”

“Thank You, I’ll have both.” I said.

“Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. Surely you’re jok­ing, Mr. Feynman!”

See? I blew the sus­pense for you. Now, you’re gonna hate me, aren’t you? Oh, well — so be it! :P .

Surely You’re Jok­ing, Mr. Feyn­man! is an auto­bi­og­ra­phy. Now, I gen­er­ally wouldn’t be caught half-dead read­ing auto­bi­ogra­phies, but I’d received “rav­ing reviews” for this one. And so, I just had to read it. Also because the guy was like, a leg­end of sorts, from what I’d heard of him. I really won’t tell you much about the book, except for the fact, that it’s purely a must-read. For fun, for know­ing stuff about “the curi­ous char­ac­ter”, for time pass, and for sati­at­ing your thirst of book­less­ness. :)

Maybe, someday, Science will get over its giant collective crush over Feynman. But I doubt it!

[Maybe, some­day, Sci­ence will get over its giant col­lec­tive crush over Feyn­man. But I doubt it!]

Well, so I order you to buy, beg, or steal it. But do read it. Oth­er­wise, you’re miss­ing out on some­thing!! :D

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April 25, 2009 – 8:52 pm | By Mystic Ranger | Posted in Life, personal | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (7)
  • http://snortsandsniffs.blogspot.com/ Anurag Sahay

    Cor­rec­tion: Surely You’re Jok­ing Mr. Feyn­man is _not_ an auto­big­ra­phy dude. It’s a col­lec­tion of anec­dotes arranged in a roughly lin­ear chrono­log­i­cal order giv­ing it a _semblance_ of biography-ship. But the edi­tor clearly says in many places that it is emphat­i­cally not a biography

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Visheshkumar Visheshku­mar

    It is not? No such editor’s note in my copy… and even this men­tions in the end­ing note that the article’s about an auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal or bio­graph­i­cal book… Oh well, it really doesn’t mat­ter does it?

  • Namya

    can’t pos­si­bly be a auto­bi­og­ra­phy, con­sid­er­ing he’s not writ­ten it, but yeah, what­ever. it’s about his life, close enough.
    and after this one, you should read ‘do you have time to think’ (espe­cially awe­some) and then ‘the mean­ing of it all’ and then ‘what do you care what other peo­ple think’ and then ‘the plea­sure of find­ing things out’.
    what on earth? of course you’ll want to.

  • http://www.visheshk.net Mys­tic Ranger

    Well, again my copy says it is writ­ten by him, but okay, you may (okay, must) be right. Any­ways, I’d sure love to read those. You wanna send me any of those? ;) Nev­er­the­less, will try my best to find it. :-)

  • Anurag Sahay

    Also, for all that it’s an awe­some name, the story behind the name is quite anti-climatic. As for where it says it’s not a biog­ra­phy: Read “What Do You Care What Other Peo­ple Think?”. Awe­some name waise…

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    is an auto­bi­og­ra­phy. Now, I gen­er­ally wouldn’t be caught half-dead read­ing auto­bi­ogra­phies, but I’d received “rav­ing reviews” for this one. And so, I just had to read it. Also because the guy was like, a leg­end of sorts, from what I’d heard of him. I really won’t tell you much about the book, except for the fact, that it’s purely a must-read. For fun, for know­ing stuff about “the curi­ous char­ac­ter”, for time pass, and for sati­at­ing your thirst