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by T-hawk 1910 days ago
And a similar data point: I read GEB around age 30 and liked it but didn't love it.

About the first third of the book was interesting in new ways of thinking about symbols and self-reference. After that it kept looping back around the same topics without really adding anything more. The dialogues were somewhat entertaining but I found myself wishing to cut past the rhetorical fluff and get to the point.