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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (23 Feb 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0044403410
  • ISBN-13: 978-0044403418
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a winner of the Nobel Prize died in February 1988. This is his last anecdotal biography in which he tells the story of the two people who most influenced his early years - his father who taught him to think and his first wife Arlene who taught him to love, even as she lay dying at an Albuquerque hospital while Feynman worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. There are also lighter moments which tell of his travels in Geneva, Trinidad, Greece and Japan. In the second part, Feynman gives a behind-the-scenes account of the investigation that followed the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in January 1986, showing the inner workings of the Rogers Commision, the official enquiry into the causes of the disaster, the confusion and misjudgement which plagued NASA and the moment when the cause of the Challenger disaster was revealed.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another wonderful book, 18 Jan 2005
By J. E. Davidson (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
The sequel to Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character - this is a book of two parts.

The first part is essentially a continuation of the previous volume - more very entertaining anecdotes.

The second, and in many ways more interesting part, is about Feynman's role in the investigation of the Space Shuttle disaster.

This is a fascinating story - his meetings with NASA engineers and managers tell an interesting story about how management sends you mad and/or makes you stupid. For example, every manager he asked, even though they were all trained as engineers, said there was a zero chance of the shuttle failing catastrophically. Not a position Feynman had a lot of patience with.

Highly recommended

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars More facinating tidbits from Feynman, 21 Jun 2000
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This review is from: What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
The anecdotes from Feynman are, as usual, witty and amusing. However, the second half of the book is taken with his involvement in the Challenger enquiry, and it is gripping stuff.

I highly recommend it, to scientists and laymen alike.

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Less substantial but still very welcome, 8 Aug 2004
By David Abbott "therealgoatee" (Gloucester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
This book is billed as a second, and final, collection of reminiscences from one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, the physicist / artist / philosopher / educator / genius, Richard Feynman. This is true; however, it is somewhat different in style to the unsurpassably brilliant "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman?" - surely one of the greatest books ever written - to which this is the sequel.

The first part of the book covers, not in chronological order, some important events from Feynman's life, particularly his early life, that were omitted from "Surely You're Joking". Most especially, it covers his meeting, marriage and subsequent death of his first wife, a tale which is no less moving for being told in his typically matter-of-fact manner.

Fully half the book is taken up with his account of his time spent on the Challenger space shuttle disaster review board, which shows that he was determined to go about accident investigation with exactly the same rigour and method that he applied to all of his pursuits.

If "Surely You're Joking" were a film, "What Do You Care" would be the bonus DVD of extras that came with it. To a certain extent, it's more of what we loved about "Surely You're Joking"; occasionally it throws the main narrative into a different light; sometimes it feels a trifle redundant. For example, why include Feynman's report on the Challenger disaster as an appendix to his own excellent and detailed account of his time working on the same, when it includes no new information? If this were indeed a DVD, it would be criticised for unnecessary reuse of material.

One welcome inclusion is a small collection of illustrations, some showing Feynman at various stages of his career but also some of his own drawings. Again, these latter would have been more relevant had they been included as part of the earlier book.

Still, "What Do You Care" is an easy read and any more wisdom from the author of "Surely You're Joking" is very welcome, however insubstantial.

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