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Summary: Wonderful!!! Anyone interested in LIFE should read it!
Review: I am only 14, and enjoyed this book more than any other I have read. It gave a wonderful history of philosophy, without being too overbearing. It got a little hard toward the end, but if you finsh the book, the journey was well worth it! When I found out who Sophie was, it took my breath away. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone!
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Summary: Excellent book - why aren't there more like this?
Review: I started reading SW late one evening, and didn't stop until the following morning. I couldn't help but get caught up in the mystery of Hilde and I was not disappointed in the least. It is, however, still a text-book cloaked in a story - the bones show through in places. It appeared to me to lack some of the essential detail that adds flavour as far as the characters and the atmosphere were concerned. Yet it was a fascinating read - both instructive and interesting. Why aren't all textbooks at school designed so that you understand the flow of the whole instead of a mish-mash of pieces?
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Summary: It is a book that will change your life
Review: I picked up this book at the Los Angeles airport waiting for my flight to Sydney Australia. I thought it would be a good read and because of its length I wouldn't get through it even with the 14 hour flight. It is such an awe-inpsiring book. It makes you look out after you are done reading a chapter and see things. It made me see the people in the airplane in a whole new light. While I can't say what is the truth, nor can I say why we are here. I can only ask questions just like anyone else. It is through these questions that Jostein Gaarder makes us ask that eventually will solve some of the more mysterious questions of life.
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Summary: Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in Space
Review: Sophie's World is the savior to would be philosophy students around the world (ie: everybody alive in this reality). This is the book that will allow you to be floating in space, examining the history of thought, and asking questions that maybe you couldn't ask yourself before. Concise, yet thorough when dealing with the different schools of philosophical thought, Jostein Gaarder has made what could be a tedious task extremely exciting, entertaining, and provoking. Sophie, Alberto, Hilde, and Major Knag , not to mention Mr. Gaarder himself, will open the minds of any reader who dares to dare themself.
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Summary: THIS BOOK GOT ME TO READ AGAIN
Review: While I was in college, I never had time to read for pleasure. I forgot it could be fun. Then, I was travelling around Europe and I had plenty of time to kill on trains and buses. A girl I met gave me this book and I was hooked. I couldn't stop reading, and going through Greece, France, and Germany meant so much more. Once I fell into Sophie's World, I was interested in philosophy. The story threw me in for such a loop, I began to question my own existance. I'm not sure how accurate all the details are, but now I know which philosophies to read up on.
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Summary: The book is a modern classic.
Review: I read Sophie's world immediately after I had read Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy. I found Jostein Gaarder's illustrative examples in many cases to be more helpful and illuminating than Russell's and whilst Sophie's world does not provide the historical background for understanding the work of the various philosophers, it does manage to get at the heart of their ideas. As an entertaining introduction to philosophy, this work is faultless. As a novel, it has a few drawbacks but the plot has a thoroughly entertaining twist.
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Summary: 5 stars for the better one!
Review: After seeing here cybergiant's recommendation of the book titled "Get Real: A Philosophical Adventure in Virtual Reality", I ordered a copy right here online. Wow! It's tense! That's real stuff which I need to read many times to understand it fully. If Sophie's World has stimulated your appetite for philosophy, then go order that book which deserves 5 stars. Philip Zhai is incredible!
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Summary: i enjoyed it.
Review: I recently read Sophie's World for as a summer reading book for my 10th grade honors English class. I couldn't put it down! After having more or less learned of all those philosophers and their places in history in my freshman history class, I found very interesting to learn of each one in detail. The novel intertwined with the non-fiction just adds to the marvelous book. I highly recommend this one!
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Summary: A work that can change your way of seeing the world.
Review: Reading Sophie's World means you will not be likely to let it go. In a easy way, the author leads us to a very exciting and worthy trip: the human thought. And we find out that anyone can be a thinker! Meantime, a parallel story is told and perhaps this is the coolest thing on the book. It's interesting the means by which Jostein Gaarder can proof that maybe our world is nothing but a dream, such as Sophie's own history. However, when the book reveals its secrets and another story is told, the author seems to lose the control of it, and the story gets a little poor and even childish. That's why it deserves 4 stars.
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Summary: An excellent summary of the history of philosophy
Review: Sophie's world provides an extremely clear and easy-to-understand overview of the history of thinking. The author's ability to give the reader so much information without becoming dull or boring is sheerly brilliant.
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