Some of the comments here make me want to read it again, but the first time through I got bored. It kept geeking out about recursion for so laboriously long tha

Some of the comments here make me want to read it again, but the first time through I got bored. It kept geeking out about recursion for so laboriously long that I felt like maybe it was written in a different time for people who hadn’t already studied thunks and y-combinators and quines in school. I’m sure it was a journey of discovery in the 70s, but it felt like a lot of the ideas that made it famous had already seeped into my education and spoiled the book for me. I’m not sure exactly how much of it I read, I thought maybe two thirds, and it sounds like I either didn’t read or didn’t understand some of the themes in the book.