"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character Paperback – January 17, 2001

Great. I love both the science and personal touch given by Feynman. Best part is the report and experience being on the Rogers Commission.

Just absolutely wonderful - another collection of anecdotes from Feynman's life. The first part of the book almost seems indistinguishable from 'Surely You're...', using the same style of narration to present details of incidents. These 'incidents' are often unconnected and span from childhood recollections from Feynman's life and his original encounter with Arlene (his wife) to the time he spent during a trip to Brazil. Each story is amusing whilst managing to provide a deeper glimpse into the erratic, comical yet intelligent character of Feynman.The second and greater part of this book deals with Feynman's presence on the committee investigating the 1986 crash of the Space Shuttle Challenger, capturing the incredible dissatisfaction felt by him as he is plunged into the administrative bureaucracy of Washington and NASA. The descriptions of the shuttle and its faulty components are illustrated clearly with the help of figures and photographs. These illustrations help the reader visualize the circumstances of the crash and where the the major fault within the shuttle actually lay. These are particularly helpful in eliminating any ambiguity in the description of technical rocket components (O-rings, etc). Despite the serious content, this part of the book retains the strong elements of humor found within rest of the book. It manages to paint a ludicrous picture of the way things tended to be handled in NASA (e.g. NASA informing an official that the probability of failure of an manned rocket is 1 in 100,000 which implied that "you could fly the shuttle every day for an average of 300 years between accidents- every day, one flight, for 300 years- which is obviously crazy!"). He also points towards the general errors made by large organizations such as NASA due to the divide between levels of management by narrating personal conversations with the management, engineers and workers. The perspicuous manner with which he describes his involvement in the investigation almost makes the reader feel as if he were right alongside Feynman while he was dealt the task of investigating the crash.I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed "Surely You're Joking..." and is willing to put his mind to a bit more work to enjoy the second part of the book. Overall, it is a great book that any Feynman fan will be willing to appreciate!

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is a very good book. It is well written, and keeps you interested. It also is very informative. There are also moments in the book that are moving. Like the way he handles his brides' deathly sickness and how he still treat her well, even though they both know she is going to die soon. Then when the story switches to the science parts, you can really learn a lot. The investigating that is done about the exploding space ship, The Challenger, and NASA is very informative and interesting, how NASA, made the poor decision of not postponing the launch. I would deffinatelly recommend this book to anyone that wants to read a good book, and learn about interesting science at the same time. I gave this book a 4 out of five because it's interesting while at the same time you learn about interesting science topics.

I'm biased.I love just about everything Richard Feynman. After reading "Surely you must be joking..." in high school, I was fascinated by the man who seemingly shattered the preconceptions of what a scientific personality was like.During my college years I had a physics professor who spoke somewhat disaparagingly of him, with particular focus on how he thought that Professor Feynman's views on women were distasteful at best.After reading a few books now, I think this idea is not very accurate. He may have had some predispositions that were pretty common during the time-period of his young adult life, but this book made me feel like I finally understood his capacity for love and devotion. Unless I find out something really crazy, I think my physics professor was misled at some point.This book was much more intimate than anything else I had read. Those of us with engineering education tend to miss out a bit on the human side of the heroes of science. I recommend to anyone who wants to know more about what I consider the most extraordinary human mind that the world has ever known.And btw:In the Description link on the product page, the Publishers Journal seems to recommend that readers skip the first parts of the book and just read about the Challenger anecdotes. I hope a robot wrote that review, because they're suggesting you forego the most poignant and fundamentally human side of the man. I struggle to comprehend how even the most detached of people would offer this as a suggestion. A bit disturbing, imo.

Please see my previous review on Feynman’s autobiography “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” This book is the conclusion of his two book autobiography and gives a deep dive into the workings and conclusions of the Rogers Commission report on the Challenger disaster. It was a frustrating experience for Professor Feynman dealing with NASA management who were always spinning a line but who knew relatively little about the science they were professing. Their assessment of Shuttle safety of flight (Probability of Success) was grossly optimistic (since they did not consult with their own engineers whom Feynman highly respected). This oversight enraged him (he had a fiery temper) especially since schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was never told the full extent of the dangers riding the Shuttle. An excellent read. Highly recommend.

I read this when it was first published. It’s the second of Feynman’s two popular books. I bought this copy for a friend who became interested in Feynman and his thought process. Well written, informative, and entertaining.

It was mostly a great book but there’s one chapter that’s a little problematic. He writes about his methods for picking up women at the bar when he was college age.