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I didn't find it wordy (but maybe that's me). There are a lot of puns and wordplay and odd stories. I guess the best way I can explain it is it's how mathematicians and scientists write when they're writing for fun. Something like this or Cliff Stoll's writing. Maybe that's the thing I liked most about it: it is a bunch of "weird math", but Hofstadter is having so much fun telling you about it that I couldn't help but enjoy it. (Then again, I'm a grad student studing "weird math" partly because I read GEB years ago, so YMMV.)