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		g8oz on July 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The joy of reading books you don't understand Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (GEB) - too much for me.

diffxx on July 4, 2024 | [–]

I found GEB understandable but ridiculously long winded and the passages with achilles were insufferably annoying.

bowsamic on July 4, 2024 | | [–]

I honestly found even the preface insufferable

__rito__ on July 4, 2024 | [–]

It was very readable to me. I really enjoyed reading the book.

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