Hofstadter is a wonderful writer and illuminates his topics with much creativity and wonderful analogy. I highly suggest you look into his more recent books, especially Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking. He is also incredibly receptive to emails; as a first semester freshman he responded in depth to my email to him.
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