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"I didn't really get OO design until I read the Go4 book." -- Steve Lott, in a conversation on Jim Bullock's bloki.

Hmm, now that's a thought. My experience might have been the same. I say "might" because that was long enough ago that I can't precisely remember/reconstruct the experience (it's an interesting topic in its own right how hard it is to remember not knowing something you now know - can you recall what it was like not to be able to read, for instance). But I do remember that I was all fired up when I read the book, seeing the world of objects in a new way. I think many readers had that experience, and irrespective of how pragmatically useful the patterns themselves were, that's what made the book a powerful experience.