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Originally Posted by janewhite88
Would reading a novel be considered casual reading?
I often have other books, like Gödel, Escher, Bach, which I mentioned on another thread, which I pick through. This seems to be more like a text book to me, very ‘heady’ but written for the layman. I take it in small doses and have been copying the Escher pictures.
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Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach" isn't really written for the average reader: he tries to explain ideas such as recursion and incompleteness from mathematical logic: not easy at all. However, the Escher diagrams are quite enjoyable.
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I whipped through The Godfather and The Last Don by Mario Puzo last month. I got so into his writings that I picked up a couple of other of his books recently. I often start collecting a certain writer if I enjoy his books.
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A couple of other Puzo novels I enjoyed were "Fools Die" and "The Sicilian."