Feynman is one of my heroes in science, but I've kept away from this book for some reason. I believe it was worth the wait. His character comes crashing out of the print, full speed ahead.  He wants you to like him and believe he's a mensch, but a highly gifted and slightly eccentric mensch. He succeeded.<br><br>This is not a literary book.  It is a conversation, with all of the self-absorption along with more than a little self-deprecation that such introspections typically bring.  But, Feynman's work product continues to be a huge force in physics today and he worked with and knew many of those more publicly exposed scientists of the 20th Century. That makes the conversation worth listening to without the speaker picking up the bar tab. His science is wonderful.  His morality...not so much.<br><br>Reading the book, it is almost impossible not to draw comparisons between what Feynman was able to achieve under the conditions and tools available to him at that time, and the work of some of the leading public science advocates today.  Feynman doesn't lose in the comparison.<br><br>Lawrence Krauss recently wrote a biography on Feynman.  If you are able to only purchase one of these books, I recommend Feynman's own view of himself as the starting point.