I read GEB a few years ago, and it struck me as a book full of ideas that would have transformed me had I been encountering them for the first time. I think the

I read GEB a few years ago, and it struck me as a book full of ideas that would have transformed me had I been encountering them for the first time. I think the book may have been so influential that its big ideas had largely filtered out into places where I'd encountered them. If I'd read it at 19, say, I think it would have rocked my world. Note that I'm mostly talking about the book's first half (about incompleteness and canons and whatnot). The second half (ants, etc) struck me as much more dated.