I’m working on it every day during lunch break. Good old hardcopy.

GEB is not a difficult read. It is delightful!

It is a popular science book which catches the vibe of mathematical logic in an excellent way. It is not a textbook, nor a piece of research. It's all vibes, but high-quality vibes. If you are in the right headspace it can be really inspiring!

I read it cover to cove back in the day and enjoyed it. But I'm not sure more people should read it today.

If they do and enjoy it, good for them! But many parts haven't aged all that well.

However, I can still very warmly recommend 'The Pleasures of Counting' to this very day.

I had my copy signed by Prof Hofstadter; a treasure to this day. Led to a maths degree, years of organ playing classes, a career in software, and a Zen practice going on 20 years. And I'm pescatarian. I even wrote a few haiku when my babies were little. Hmm, time for another listen to a Tocatta and Fugue.

I read it on my honeymoon 25 years ago. That book sticks with you.

It's been years since I cracked open a copy, maybe I should give it another shot.

I showed up to first day at university and an older student talked to me for like two minutes before declaring that I needed to read GEB. I dutifully went ahead and bought it, and I still work in logic today.

He wrote a number of follow-up books. I love GEB, but the follow ups were often disappointing in surprising ways.

He has another book about the beauty and challenges of translating poetry, but it’s actually about the sudden death of his wife and it's been too sad for me to finish.

Well, it's a pop-sci tome, not a research article.

However, it is pretty dated these days.

I'd have thought so too, but when I went looking for a copy in Waterstones and failed to find it under popsci section, or in maths, I tried the enquiry desk.

After a few attempts where I eventually tried "goddle s-chair batch" we found it.

It was under Western Philosophy.