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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" was a bit like this for me. I liked it but there were short sections that took me days to get past. It was dense with information and logic that was worth working through, to me. I don't recall how long it took me to finish the entire book but it might have been six months, alternately reading other lighter books.
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Yeah, I was given a copy of that in high school and kept it until about 2 yrs out of University when I finally decided to give it a try. Some of it was really interesting, and some of it was really hard. I finally gave it to a co-worker who really really wanted it -- before finishing it. :-)
I suspect that he didn't finish it either as he used to carry around lots of really intellectual looking books, in fact he'd carry them 10 meters from his desk to the conference room for every meeting, and then carry them back to his desk -- as if he was anxious for a free moment to read them -- but the bookmarks were never more than 5% of the way into the books. We all used to laugh about that, but never said anything to him.