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Old 09-23-2003, 12:07 AM   #5
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Re: Good reading

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Originally posted by hot_pastrami


Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and the follow-up What Do You Care What Other People Think? -- Biographies on Richard Feynman, the coolest scientist ever.
I read both several years ago, and they are spectacularly fine reads. True life stories about a simply brilliant, eclectic, eccentric, down to earth guy who lived in very interesting times, always viewing those times with a very, very insightful eye.

There is also a PBS documentary out there somewhere about Feynman that is well worth a viewing. So revered is this guy, that a friend of mine even wrote a song about him some years back, which I engineered for her (and played dhoumbek!) and which she subsequently used to be chosen to participate in a songwriters' showcase here in KC.

Feynman was a very interesting man.
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