I have just started reading Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.
Has anybody else read this?
Would you like to tell me your impression of the book?

Read it. Loved it. Bought many copies of it so I could "loan" it to others (you know how hard it is getting books back!) The only critical thing I have to say about the book is that it gets a bit too "Through the Looking Glass" for my taste near the end. I would have enjoyed some other ending better, but loved the rest of the book. Also, a very helpful little reference book when I was taking a philosophy class.

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I read this book during my senior year of high school. I, happily, found it to be totally different than what I expected. It's a great introduction to philosophy, but I, too, found the ending a little 'out there' even though the author teased us throughout the book with such thinking. It's an easy-to-read book and I'll probably find my way back to it again.

Hey AC! Finish that book yet??

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Not yet SB.
It's a very deep philosophical book that I only read at the beach...away from the kids.

Sophie's World was very strong in plot which was surprising, considering it's also packed full of information. I lost track all the time of all the different philosophers but I have to say that i enjoyed the ending a lot, how it ended with the Big Bang theory. I think that Gaarder's trying to connect philosophy one more time with the rest of the world. If you find it too much (as i did) I would recommend The Solitaire Mystery first, which is another book that J. Gaarder wrote. I loved them both!

"wasn't there a connection between the development of ideas and science on the one hand and the greenhouse effect and deforrestation on the other?
maybe it was not so crazy to call man's thirst for knowledge a fall from grace." -hilde.

"long before the child learns to talk properly,
and long before it learns to think philosophically, the world will have become a habit....a pity if you ask me." -alberto.

"you've been gone for five hours" joanna said sharply.
"no, ive been gone for more than a thousand years" -sophie.

"a white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. because it is an extremely large rabbit the trick takes many billions of years." -alberto.

and my fave:

"the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder." -alberto.

i never saw the world quite the same way after reading sophie.

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