[JamieLewis]

I read GEB during my final year of university, during winter break. It took about 3 weeks of solid reading (wake up, read, pause and think and clear my mind, do other stuff, go back to reading, sleep, repeat) to get through it. By that point in my life I had already been exposed to many of the topics discussed, and even unwittingly read works that cited GEB, so had been also been exposed to some of the ideas presented as well - I don't however think that matters too much.

It really is, in my opinion, an amazing and clever book. If you can, I would recommend taking a few weeks to really digest it, it is not a book you can read for hours and hours on end - you will need to stop, clear your mind and reflect on some of the points made - at least that is what I had to do.

Be warned, the book will start to mess with you...but it warns you when it does...most of the time.