It was published almost 40 years ago. I think to get the best experience of it, you have to have read it back then, or read it as a precocious 14 year old. If you read it with a graduate or even undergraduate understanding of computer science, you're probably not going to get much out of it on the technical side; and I think a lot of his conjectures about how the mind works didn't really pan out.
If you approach it as an object of art, the book is fun because it embeds into itself many of the techniques and principles it describes (but you'll only notice this if you're paying attention). This is kinda cool on a meta-meta level because the central concept of the book is self-referentiality.
If you approach it as an object of art, the book is fun because it embeds into itself many of the techniques and principles it describes (but you'll only notice this if you're paying attention). This is kinda cool on a meta-meta level because the central concept of the book is self-referentiality.