Feynman sprinkler

The first time I read that, I was charmed and amused. The next time I read it, after progressing farther in my own studies, I found Feynman's voice and self-described persona unbelieveably arrogant.

Certainly he has earned the right to that arrogance, but it makes the book and its fascinating stories much harder for me to enjoy. I now prefer to stick with his scientific, rather than personal, books, but, despite my best attempts to ignore it, even my enjoyment of those scientific works is diminished by what I perceive of his personality, and I wish now that I hadn't gone back and re-read his biographic works.