Middle ground opinion here. I found roughly the first third of GEB interesting. It's mind-expanding to think about self-reference and recursive structure in t

Middle ground opinion here. I found roughly the first third of GEB interesting. It's mind-expanding to think about self-reference and recursive structure in the context of all the other fields besides computer science, like natural language, music, art. GEB is a fun exploration of that for the first few chapters... but it doesn't get better after that, after a while it just keeps doing the same things and repeating the same stuff, and becomes a chore rather than fun to get through.