It's the kind of book you can spend a few days reading or a life time, just like "Zen and the art of motorcycle repair".
I've read half of it in 8 years, so maybe it's time to redo the whole process from beginning to end.
6 month read-through/discussion of Gödel, Escher, Bach starting 1/17 on Reddit
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#12Brilliant way to start the year off. I first got my hand on this book when I was in high school and was bit overwhelmed. I read it again in college, but again, I don't think I really "got it". Getting into a group read/discussion on this book would by simply PERFECT!
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#14If someone wants to start one for Hofstadter's most recent mega-book, Le Ton Beau De Marot, count me in.
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#15This was the last book my grandfather gave me before he passed away a few years ago, in translation to Swedish. Back then I was completely unaware that it is regarded as seminal work.
He was an engineer just as I am, but I always admired that his bookshelf was brim full of knowledge from completely different areas, spanning psychology, biology, medicine, art and music.
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#16How do you know someone's read GEB? They tell you.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with killing trees that were grown specifically for paper? You're just taking CO2 out of the atmosphere, helping reduce global climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said "In the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fibre or energy from the forest, will gener…
You've got a point there, but shipping that book to where I live halfway around the world in New Zealand isn't doing climate change any favours.
I think you're overthinking it. I'm pretty sure other people in NZ are buying the same book, the marginal impact of shipping one copy must be very close to zero.
I've got a Kindle but I wouldn't trade my hardcover GEB for an electronic version.
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#18If someone wants to start one for Hofstadter's most recent mega-book, Le Ton Beau De Marot, count me in.
I don't think it's the most recent, isn't 'i am a strange loop' a subsequent one? Anyway, I read it and it's awesome. It is a much more personal book than GEB though, and it's easy to grow weary of the poem tranations after the twentyeth, but it's a great reading.
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#20This is such a awful book. Pure hipster material.