Isn’t that true for any book that some people like it and others not so much, and that it depends on what the person in question is already familiar with? I liked GEB because it was an easy to read good explanation of basic ideas of formal systems and some other stuff as well. If I were already familiar with the ideas, I wouldn’t probably finish reading it. But that doesn’t mean the book is bad, in the same way as the fact that I don’t laugh at a joke I have heard ten times before doesn’t mean the joke is bad.
Isn’t that true for any book that some people like it and others not so much, and that it depends on what the person in question is already familiar with? I liked GEB because it was an easy to read good explanation of basic ideas of formal systems and some other stuff as well. If I were already familiar with the ideas, I wouldn’t probably finish reading it. But that doesn’t mean the book is bad, in the same way as the fact that I don’t laugh at a joke I have heard ten times before doesn’t mean the joke is bad.