A buddy of mine had a copy and I WANTED to understand it.
  Rafael. He was doing neural networking stuff ('91) and telling
  me all about the limitations of NN yet how it has so much
  potential... and was proudly showing off his code... and I was
  like, "ugh it's C.. I don't read C..." (i can read C now,
  although I still can't write in it)... I flipped through this
  book - he's tell me how amazing it is and try to explain it to
  me and I was just in awe, not making much sense of what he was
  talking about. But it always intrigued me.
  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Godel%2C_Escher%2C_Bach_%28first_edition%29.jpg