[mnode]

Finally finished "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by by Douglas Hofstadter. Hugely original and entertaining, and although it's pretty old now, some ideas still very relevant to current AI debates.

Also "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. Entertaining.

And "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges. Mostly a bit disappointing but some high points.

Monthly thread would be fun.

[thorin]

Hope long did you spend reading GEB? I ask because I found it pretty dense and reading in detail I feel like I'd need a good few weeks to get through it while having nothing much else to do. I think I read about a third of it a couple of times. I was enjoying it, but it was taking up a lot of spare time I didn't have!