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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 1311498" data-attributes="member: 6406">Big ups to Heinlein. &quot;Starship Troopers&quot; is a good read. I also enjoyed &quot;Job: A Comedy of Justice.&quot; &quot;Stranger in a Strange Land&quot; was probably his magnum opus but it slows down in places.If you&#039;re willing to go science, rather than science fiction, &quot;Surely You&#039;re Joking Mr Feynman&quot; is probably one of the better books I&#039;ve ever read. In the book, Feynman talks about the following:- The work that won him the Nobel Prize in physics started with an idea he got while in a food fight in his college cafeteria.- How he used to pick up girls in bars-The semester he spent teaching in Brazil where he learned how to play drums from some of the locals, and ended up playing in a marching band in the big Carnival parade- How he got bored at Los Alamos (working on the atomic bomb) and passed the time by pranking the other scientists.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 1311498, member: 6406"] Big ups to Heinlein. "Starship Troopers" is a good read. I also enjoyed "Job: A Comedy of Justice." "Stranger in a Strange Land" was probably his magnum opus but it slows down in places. If you're willing to go science, rather than science fiction, "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman" is probably one of the better books I've ever read. In the book, Feynman talks about the following: - The work that won him the Nobel Prize in physics started with an idea he got while in a food fight in his college cafeteria. - How he used to pick up girls in bars -The semester he spent teaching in Brazil where he learned how to play drums from some of the locals, and ended up playing in a marching band in the big Carnival parade - How he got bored at Los Alamos (working on the atomic bomb) and passed the time by pranking the other scientists. [/QUOTE]

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