Don't waste your time. His books are just horribly misleading. After reading them you won't come out with any better knowledge about what is actually going on,

Don't waste your time. His books are just horribly misleading. After reading them you won't come out with any better knowledge about what is actually going on, in fact you might even be worse off. He throws around lots of technical jargon without any attempt to actually explain (relying instead on layman reader's wrong intuitions) what those words mean in the context of theoretical physics and you can really see just how hard he tries to make it all mysterious to impress the "common man" and give him enough illusion of understanding so he doesn't stop reading. But hey, that sells books! Although he's not the only scientist who does this, he's become in my mind a prototype for such deceitful behavior. Feynman's approach was as good as it gets when it comes to popularizing physics, so your best bet are his popular books. And if you have some working calculus knowledge you should just read his Lectures on Physics to get to understand pretty much all of physics up to and not including QFT and General Relativity.