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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman): Autobiographical collection of stories about Feynman. It gives the impression (like a plaster cast or paper-mache mask)of a man who passionately wants to know why. It also reads like a plaster cast, light, fast and a little superficial: an impressive number of anecdotes set together by quick sketches of the background information necessary for each story. However, the variety of the collected stories, spread across time, geography and interests, puts some of the depth back into the collection. It's a light, fast read I kept bouncing out of because it was so casually strung together. Good bedtime reading.