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I knew dozens of people in my high school who actually read it. Maybe godel, escher, bach would be a better "book that people talked about but never read"
by IncreasePosts 3mo ago
I knew dozens of people in my high school who actually read it.
Maybe godel, escher, bach would be a better "book that people talked about but never read"
- intrasight 3mo agoI read it in high school in 82. I still have the book. Fun fact: The very first book ever sold on Amazon was "Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought" also by Douglas Hofstadter
- pohl 3mo agoI was also tempted to offer GEB as a better example, although I’ve read it twice. Many bounce off of it.