Father Steve quoth:
In reply to:

I read the first of the two books which Feynman wrote "for the layperson" and found him to be among the most egotistical, self-obsessed, self-promoting, self-congratulatory writers I have ever read. Needless to say, I did not / will not read the second.

Right on, Padre. Me too. I thought I was almost on my own. Come to think of it, I may be!