I Am A Boring Loop

I’m on page 78 of I Am A Strange Loop and it’s a boring book. Hofstadter’s fascination with loopyness gets him nowhere fast. The ideas themselves are rather fascinating, but I’ve heard it all before (so far). And Hofstadter’s become another person since GEB… his style of writing is just much more stale, I don’t get the same sense of passion and interest I got with GEB, I get the sense of quite an intelligent professor who’s forced to give a lecture he doesn’t really want to give but gives anyway. And he seems much more defensive. I’ve got a few quotes from the book I want to add to the quotes blog eventually, but I’m really gonna have to take a break from this book and move on to The Black Swan. Surely I can devour Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s sharp, witty, and thought-provoking writing as I did with Fooled By Randomness, right? I guess we’ll see. Goodbye, I Am A Strange Loop; I shall come back for you someday to finish you, but for now I want to start seeing other books.