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No, you're not the only one. I, and at least three people I know, all found it to be an entertaining and fairly straight-forward read. Certainly not unfinisha
by RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
No, you're not the only one. I, and at least three people I know, all found it to be an entertaining and fairly straight-forward read. Certainly not unfinishable.
I'd be interested to know what it is that people find makes them stop.
- _delirium 17y agoIt may have been that I just read it at the wrong time in my life, but I found parts of it really tedious. I can imagine it would've been more enlightening if I'd read it earlier in my life, as opposed to trying to read it after I already had a CS degree and was in grad school studying AI...
- afterz 17y agoI found it light, and boring because of how light it was. I had studied Gödel's theorems, etc., so I really could not take the pace for explaining the logic stuff (most of the book) in GEB.
- afterz 17y agoBy the way, I would recommend any programmer interested in physics "The Road to Reality" by Penrose. I think that's a very challenging book, that can be interesting for programmers, even if it's not about programming. Compared to that kind of material, GEB is very, very light.