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^^ Yeah, it does seem to be an incredibly well-liked book, but after my experiences of reading I Am A Strange Loop, GED is probably ruined for me now - I'll always be noting his "dear reader"s and his insistence that you must understand things in precisely the way he understands them or everything you think is completely wrong. He called Bertrand Russell a "coward" for his work on logicism (because it didn't take into account Godel's theory of incompleteness, published in 1931, something like 30 years after Russell published The Principles of Mathematics) which is frankly bananas.
I've always had difficulty with philosophers in general, though, which probably doesn't help.