Don't You Have Time to Think?

A collection of letters, essays and writings that are more domestic and personal characterwiise than his scientific adventures. I bought it because I needed to get a present for a friend who needed some thinking doing.

日本語訳本も販売されていますが， やはり原著を読まれた方が，微妙なニュアンスを理解できます。 物理学者の英語のユニークでナイーブな文章の理解には最適です。 読む英語能力の向上には最適な一冊です。（訳本との併用可） ちなみに彼の死後に子孫によって公開された一冊です。

This book is a collection of letters by Feynman: ones he received, responded to, and other letters he wrote. It is literally a movie about his life; a documentary maybe? but at a great length: the sequence of letters, from early days in his life till our old Feynman, forms kind of a biography and how he went through his life. You'll get to absorb his wisdom and a sense of peace when you read this book. The best was the advice letters by him for students, but one for a dad too: The Last Letter! The Last Letter in the book is a surprise for us: a perfect movie-type ending! (the fact I realized, making me call this a movie!) The book is great for mid-teen Feynman fans, who enjoyed 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' thoroughly. I'm writing this review after having this book for about two years, and I'll be going to college soon; I cannot tell you how much this book has impacted my ways of looking at life (and this book is by a scientist, not a philosopher!- something that Feynman himself asserts), and "understanding Feynman"! Next recommendation - 'The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist' -by Feynman. A tough, but rewarding book.

It is a compilation of short stories that Feynman writes in first person. I got to love the guy and his way of seeing the world by reading this book.

Thought this was a new/different collection of Feynman letters. No, same page images as the U.S. edition of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, collected by his daughter Michelle. Good stuff anyway; now I can loan out the American edition. The puzzle on page 5 is called "skeleton division". More at [...]