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GEB is a great book. I'd suggest taking another crack at it after you give it some distance. It wasn't until I picked it up a second time that I was able to read it cover to cover. I'd suggest Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas as a good primer for GEB. It's a collection of columns that wrote for the Scientific American when he took over for Martin Gardner after Gardner stopped writing Mathematical Games. He presents many of the same ideas, but pared down for the periodical format.