My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'll probably never be able to say I've truly 'read' "Gödel, Escher, Bach" - it's a dip-in sort of thing that would do your head in if you genuinely took it on from cover to cover.
I first stumbled across this book well over 30 years ago but now I've been given a copy of my own. It's a treasured gem. At times you feel so absorbed that you want to climb into the book after it. Whatever, there's something for everyone here, albeit that it helps to have an interest in maths. Escher was that artist who drew geometrically impossible scenes; Gödel is famous for a theorem which said there's nothing you can prove both logically and emprically; and Bach was that music guy. To whet your appetite, Gödel came up with a "liar paradox" sentence: "This sentence is false." (Think about it, and if you're like me, enjoy.)
I suggest you borrow a copy of this, and if you like what you read at first, buy it. You'll never let go of it again - hence "by the bedside".
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