I am not joking ...

Last weekend I finished Richard Feynman's "Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman". To summarize my experience, I enjoyed reading it. It makes a light reading (quite unexpected from an autobiographical account of a Nobel prize winning physicist), but intellectual at the same time (which can be expected :-) ).
This book tells the reader about life and times of Feynman through a series of anecdotes, and I appreciated his sense of humor as he relates these. It shows Feynman not just as a dedicated scientist, but as a "normal" human being, who pursues other interests, like music and arts, and gives his best to everything he tries. He plays drums in carnival in Brazil! And holds a one-man painting exhibition!! He is also probably a little eccentric, like scientists are ;-)
This book also gives a brief glimpse of what went into the making of the first atom bomb (though not the reaction of the people who created it, on the aftermath of its deployment). What was missing was a better view of his "personal" side - his emotions and his family, but then this is not exactly an autobiography. At some points he tends to get a little repetitive.
In my view, this book can be enjoyed by people who like non-fiction, as well as those who prefer fiction. But a word of caution : quite a substantial part of it would make sense to people who have an understanding of basic physics. (So, the engineers are safe :-)).