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Don't be put off by the quality of the first lecture - the rest are more listenable, and hearing this amazing man talk himself is in itself worth the purchase. But I am definitely biased.

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excellent

superb book for anyone interested in the subjects covered. as easy to understand as could be hoped and a pleasure to listen to. the quality is a little poor to start with but listenable and soon improved.

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essential Listening

Feynman was blessed with insight and enthusiasm and these lectures are part of a genuinely legendary series given in the early 1960s. The sound quality is poor in lecture one, and you obviously don't get the benefit of the pictures on the blackboard, but once you are past that you get to listen in on an undisputed genius performing before an audience in his natural environment. To anybody excited by the edges of knowledge it is like being offered a recording of Mozart practicing his scales and then jamming with a few mates. What is that worth?

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Brilliant

To have the chance to listen to this incredible man is awesome. Poor sound in lecture 1 but the others are better. He is my hero so this is very special.

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These are the lectures, not the book

These are the publicly available lectures from 1961, not the book. Of course, the book is based on the lectures, but the book has many advantages. Didn't hear what Feynman said? Read the book. Do you prefer a more book-like narration? Read the book. Do you want good audio quality? Listen to the audiobook (but not this one, this one consists of the lectures).
Both the book and the original audio lectures are available for free, so why then does it costs? I was sure someone narrated it with modern audio quality.
P.S. It's not "Narrated by: uncredited", it's "Narrated by: Richard P. Feynman"

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Feyman's own voice Brings these lectures to life!

As a graduate of Natural Science, I took a while to warm up to this one, because I didn't quite realise this was the actual lecture, not a written script - but having re-listened to the first chapter I got into the swing of Feyman's a character and his humour. I'd never even heard of him prior to this book... But I now realise how much of a genius communicator he really was!!

I listened to this as part of a science book club reading list, and I must admit, that I would not have given this book a second glance were it not for that; I'm so glad I did though, as I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Aspects of the science presented in these lectures have been updated since the lectures were recorded, but it was nice to hear how things were taught back when the details of some aspects were less known than they are today.

A thoroughly enjoyable listen, and a masterclass to budding tutors! I just wish I had someone like Feyman as my tutor when I was an Undergraduate!

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the audio is very bad, it ruins the book

i could not finish the book because the audio was such poor quality. it was hard to understand

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terrible audio

I was expecting a readout of the book not audio recordings from lectures made in the 60s

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such a crap sound quality

do not purchase unless you have knowledge of sound editing or you are a sound ingeneer yourself. certainly do not honour Richard Feynman great teaching. :-((

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Can't hear anything

It is impossible to understand the audio.
I wish I've known this before I listened.

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