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Title: A pretty good biography of Douglas R. Hofstadter
Review: If you want to learn about the author, Douglas R. Hofstadter, and to marvel about how talented and witty he is, this is a very decent book.However, if you want to understand the connection between recursion and consciousness, about what Godel, Escher and Bach have to do with it, and about how the human mind is like a computer, this book is nearly unreadable.The author really has a habit of writing in length about himself, usually in a way only remotely connected to anything relevant to you, the reader. I found myself constantly reading things that really don't interest me much about the author, only to get to the main point, which could otherwise have been stated in one eighth as much text.I have stopped reading half-way through the book. The ideas presented may be revolutionary and exciting, but I personally find it unreadable.
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