A review by papelgren
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.0

Mind = blown. I'll never be able to think about the world the same after reading this book. Hofstadter sometimes gets bogged down with very technical language and some of his segues lack grace, but the scope and ambition of the book outweigh any flaws. He is playful to a fault, but that's better than being absolutely uninteresting to a fault. He also relies on the reader to figure out certain connections, which makes for something more difficult than it needs to be if the goal is to educate people who aren't familiar with these ideas in the first place.