• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    2 years ago

    Imagine being 40 and bragging that you're going to read 1984 and Hitchhiker's guide.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      Godel, Escher, Bach is a "suggestion he's considering". How the fuck are you a stem dork who hasn't read that book yet? He's poorly read even for a stem person, lmao.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I've read that book and all I got from it was like "what if the cool part of music was that it's actually algebra"

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, the target audience is very much 19 year old STEM students. Most people pretty much grow out of it after that.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          It's more that a lot of things rely on self referential loops and that's kind of cool but yeah it's a clever book but I've read more complex even for the STEM Dork crowd (Hardest STEM dork book was probably Road to Reality by Penrose, where I stalled on several chapters for weeks at a time)