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Title: Mlotinow's Rainbow
Review: Don't buy this book thinking it's about Feynman; it's really all about the author, a whiny sycophant who attached himself to Feynman at Caltech while the professor worked in his final years. Mlotinow offers precious little from Feynman, while going on interminably about his inability to find a purpose in his work, his pot-smoking buddies and an especially excruciating bit about a false-positive testicular cancer diagnosis. The few-and-far-between anecdotes and quotes from Feynman are nuggets, but there's really nothing here that can't be found in Surely You're Joking or What Do You Care What Other People Think.If you're looking for information about and from Richard Feynman, read the two titles listed above. If you want to find out about quantum theory or string theory, read The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris or The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. Take a pass on this one.
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