I wanted to love this book. I understood the concepts and found them legitimately thought provoking - I just disliked the writing style. He uses elaborate metaphors, strained socratic dialogue, peppered with cultural references and visual cues... and relatively few paragraphs actually articulating the core ideas. I only understood Godel's incompleteness theorem when I looked it up elsewhere. It's like he focused entirely on the mystical "look how deep all this stuff is..." story and forgot to actually explain the subject at hand.