A collection of first hand accounts from people who knew Feynman and from Feynman himself. More delightful content and the photographs were also a plus.
I love to read about brilliant people and learn how they process. There is a relentlessness about them, a persistence to make the world understandable. Feynman was also quite a character. His passage explaining how a tree is built literally out of air has always stayed with me.
The quintessential Feynman. Almost shed a few tears in the last chapter.
"He pulled himself up out of the coma and opened his eyes briefly and said 'This dying is boring' and then went back into the coma. That's the last thing he said.
I really enjoyed this. I was concerned that it might be redundant to other books I've read about him but found that the material was new to me. The chapter on Touva was delightful and bittersweet. I love it when people get excited about obscure topics, and what could be more obscure than Touva, and who could get more excited about something than Richard Feynman?
I love illustrated books and especially illustrated bios - this is a "light" Bio with great comments from friends, scientists and family- tons of pictures. FOund it at a used book store for $7