Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach
by Crespyl on Thursday July 05, 2018 @12:54PM
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> You can skim sections, you can skip parts, you don't have to understand everything
This was very true of the first (several) times I read through the book. I pulled the book off the shelf of my Dad's library at the age of maybe 10-12 (it had the coolest cover), and couldn't make head nor tail out of most of it. It did have a bunch of interesting pictures and I skipped most of the prose to read the funny and intriguing dialogues.
Each time I re-read the book I felt like I got more out of it, I think I'd read it more than ten times over by the time I was 20.
Having been through GEB a few times made Metamagical Themas easier too, and the same rule of "skip to the next section, or just take a break if I'm not getting it" worked well there too.
This was very true of the first (several) times I read through the book. I pulled the book off the shelf of my Dad's library at the age of maybe 10-12 (it had the coolest cover), and couldn't make head nor tail out of most of it. It did have a bunch of interesting pictures and I skipped most of the prose to read the funny and intriguing dialogues.
Each time I re-read the book I felt like I got more out of it, I think I'd read it more than ten times over by the time I was 20.
Having been through GEB a few times made Metamagical Themas easier too, and the same rule of "skip to the next section, or just take a break if I'm not getting it" worked well there too.