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Summary: an incredibly brilliant book
Review: My friend Clare asked me what Sophie's World was about, and I had trouble explaining to her. It is simply something that you have to experience yourself. This book made me, along with Sophie, experience the wonder and awe in which we should hold our own world. Sophie's World, at the beginning, appears to be a simple story about a girl who is receiving a course on philosophy...from a complete stranger. It is, of course, only a side plot that the belongings of a mysterious girl named Hilde keep turning up, everywhere from her room to the middle of the sidewalk. Sophie soon learns about everyone from Plato to Darwin, and also learns how to use philosophy; how to question everything - even her own existence. This book makes all the realities and beliefs which assure us of our existence come crashing down - and yet it strengthens them. Sophie exists - and yet she does not. It is these paradoxes that make Sophie's World an incredibly brilliant book.
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Summary: One of the Best I've Read
Review: I have seldom read a "novel" with so much attraction. I would go to bed at night angry I couldn't read more...an exhausting yet invigorating book. I plan to use it with my philosophy classes next year. I guess that the nain reason is that we are all afraid of being Sophie, trapped in someone else's creation, yet still able to find (hopefully) some sense of independence and freedom. Again, one of the finest books written, I have read since two others by Gaarder: Solitaire Mystery, and the Christmas Mystery.
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Summary: Tone is condescending, philosophy overview is limited.
Review: I listened to this book to put me to sleep while my upstairs neighbor was building a loft. I can highly recommend this book for that purpose. sophie is very naive for a 15-year-old & doesn't question her teacher's choice in ending his philosopy course with jean-paul sartre. simone de beauvoir is the only female philosopher in the story. i suppose that mr gaarder ended the story on j-p s to avoid dealing with philosophical ideas that challenge ancient grecian ideas (upon which western civilization is based) on race & gender.
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Summary: Chocolate-covered Broccoli
Review: This is undoubtedly one of the best philosophical discourses of this millenium. It takes the reader through the depth of history and leads him/her into a "what a relief" understanding. After putting the book down, I walked around muttering to myself: "Wakened one night by a curious dream
And a voice that seemed to be speaking to me
Like a far-off subterranean stream,
I rose and asked: What do you want of me?"
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Summary: Sophie's World: a beggining
Review: Let me introduce myself first. My name is Carl Schoonover, I am 14, and I live in Paris. My parents read Sophie's World and told me an excellent book. Of course, I was intimidated by the fact that it was about philosophy. So I just let it lie there, on my bedside table. One day I actually decided to read the book. That night I didn't sleep. I could absolutely not but the book down. For the next few days I read it on the Metro, at home, on the bus. You know... Everywhere. What was so powerful about this book is that it introduces philosophy in an approchable way. It deals with the classical philosophers up to the contemporary. This book stimulated me to explore other works of philosophy and I have been discovering a whole new world since then. To sum this up, Sophie's World has changed my life. I will ever be grateful to the genius who created it.
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Summary: It was the best way to understand and enjoy philo.
Review: There was no better way to educate one self. Jostein Gaarder, to my oppinion, is the best teacher I ever had. For the first time, I understood the study of Marx, Darwin,plato.... This was the most interesting process to learn philosophy
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Summary: I just love this book
Review: Sophie's World is the best book I have read in my many years of reading.. try it.. you will never ever regret...
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Summary: The Rabbit's Fur
Review: _Sophie's World_ is one of the very best books I have ever read. I was drawn into the story early on, even and especially the parts about the philosphers. I became aware of Hilde by the same process Sophie did, and it unsettled me as much as it did her. The way Sophie's world came down around her was wonderfully horrific and leads me to ponder Alberto's question: Have we all buried ourselves too deeply in the rabbit's fur?
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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: This book is a wonderful book. It takes you to where you rarely have ever gone. I am 14 and in my life I have only reflected a few times about my life. Yes, ofcourse, I wonder who I am and why I'm here, but I have never been forced through a book to learn philosophy. It is an excellent book and it should be a required book for most schools.
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Summary: A book, simple and sweet.
Review: I think Sophie's World is a book, not only to be read and reread, as most people say, but also to be of thought in the heart. The character of Sophie, although very heart warming is a little too naive. But I enjoyed the book throughly and in his simple words, the author presented this book for more than adults to read. Elegant and noble, I really think that this book also can be to people like me, although we're just mere twelve year olds!
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