Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
| Full title | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character |
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| Author | Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton |
| Published | 1985 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Feynman’s anecdotes as told to Ralph Leighton — safe-cracking at Los Alamos, samba in Brazil, the bongo drums, the textbook-committee farce. The book people hand over when they want to explain what taking a problem personally looks like. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at the Strand, New York — December 2025 (Books photo album)
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Unknown — a bare Amazon link on my to-read list, with no record of who pointed me to it.
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@patrick_oshag’s thread — named in the replies to his question “Anyone read anything thought provoking lately ?”, October 2026 (@karkhanis, a photo of the book). Full set of replies: Anyone read anything thought provoking… (tweet).
Connections
- Richard Feynman — the subject.
- The Idea Factory · The Man From The Future — the read-library books that cover the same mid-century American physics world.
- Republic of Letters — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.