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Title: A waste of time
Review: I gotta side with the minority here. That the book is omnipresent even after many years and has such a loyal following boggles my mind. I suppose the same people who get off on elaborate dungeons and dragons fantasies played over months and years would enjoy this. I did not. It is over-complicated, trite and sometimes positively obnoxious in its desire to be cute. If Hofstadter's desire was to write a nonfiction "Finnegan's Wake," he's succeeded, but without the artistic accomplishment, only the chaos. If ever there were a case of the "emporer's new clothes," this book is it. As a mathematician and attorney, I object to this kind of obsfucation.
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