This made me giggle remembering the stories. Oh, god, I love this book. It made me want to do science because he was just so joyful and silly about it, and I figured that if I maybe just devoted my life to it and possibly also drumming I would be there too! It turns out you also have to be a supergenius though, so that plan is out.
The "sequel" -- his other autobiography, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" -- isn't AS fun but it's still a good time, and there's an extended passage on the Challenger disaster that is very much not lolarious at all but is really valuable.
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Date: 2010-05-06 05:16 pm (UTC)The "sequel" -- his other autobiography, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" -- isn't AS fun but it's still a good time, and there's an extended passage on the Challenger disaster that is very much not lolarious at all but is really valuable.