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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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Subject: The new Feynman book
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Date: 16 Oct 88 22:50:00 GMT
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``WHAT DO _YOU_ CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?'', by the late Richard
P Feynman has just come out.  It's wonderful.  Half the book is more
autobiographical anecdotes a la ``SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR FEYNMAN'',
and includes some real gems.  I loved Feynman's career as a sexist pig.
The more extensive glimpses of his first wife are quite touching--there
is a little overlap here with SYJMR.

The second half of the book is Feynman's story of his part in and view
of the Challenger investigation.  I read part of this when it appeared
in PHYSICS TODAY (also, parts appeared in the Caltech publication SCI-
ENCE AND ENGINEERING, which I have not seen)--there is much more here.
The full story behind the ice cold/rubber connection/demonstration is
remarkable.

Also included are some third party letters, photos of R P Feynman the
musical star and family man, and drawings by Ofey.  At the end of the
book is an offer for "Richard Feynman: Safecracker Suite", a one-hour
tape/CD of "Feynman playing drums and telling his most infamous story".
Send $10/$15 to Ralph Leighton/Box 70021/Pasadena CA 91107; all pro-
ceeds go to UCLA's John Wayne Cancer Clinic.

The book itself: $17.95, publisher W W Norton & Co, ISBN 0-393-02659-0.
Cody's Books here in Berkeley has a pile of what looks like three to
four hundred of them sitting on the floor up front!  I have no connec-
tion other than being a satisfied reader, and a not-quite-satisfied
recipient (OK, it was free, I can't complain) of a promotional T-shirt,
having a few wimpy Feynman diagrams on the front, and the title/author
named on the back.

Overall, reading the book was good fun, but it was tinged by the sur-
rounding sadness (his own death and the Challenger tragedy).

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720