H.H. Munro wrote a great many light and often very funny send-ups of the stifling conventions and manners of the Edwardian age. But on the other hand, three of the first eight stories in the book involve corpses, with two of these being small children eaten by wild animals.
BTR is a GREAT read… my wife, who is not a runner, couldn’t put it down (neither could I).
I was already getting back into running (sprinting, though, not distance), when I read the book, and it inspired me to go barefoot. Within a month of ditching my shoes, all my running injuries were gone.
I’m still not an ultra-runner, but I spend all my time barefoot… or in sandals like the huaraches in the book that I made from plans at the website linked to my name.
Feynman was not just a great physicist, but a great character as well.
I like listening to people talk about video games. Not those conversations about who scored a sick no-scope head shot, or which character's passive ability allows them to farm the most efficiently, mind you, but about why video games can be meaningful and why they matter.