Maybe now I can understand this book. It arrived last week, and I cracked it to find to my surprise that its genius level material. I would have to have a lot of uninterrupted time to grok.
Oh yeah - and if you're struggling with the math/meta-math examples you should do what he says and play around with the ideas with pen and paper. If I remember correctly they're mostly closer to the start of the book so after that you should be fine.