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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
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Subject: Re: Godel, Escher, Bach
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 18:28:29 EDT
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>> I was wondering if anyone knew where to get this book in hardcover.  
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>I'm not certain, but I don't think it was ever published as a hardcover.

My hardcover copy is dated 1979, published by Basic Books, NY at $18.50.
Look up Books in Print in your local library or bookstore to see whether it
is still available.

Mandatory mini-review:  There are enough gems in GEB to justify wading through
a lot of verbiage.  I initially thought that what it needed most was a good
editor, to cut it to about 1/2 to 2/3 the present length.  On rereading from
time to time I find enough of interest in the parts I thought should have been
eliminated to convince me that I was wrong, and that one must get used to
Hofstadter's style.

Anyone read his new book?

Bob Langridge				(UUCP: [...]!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl)
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