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Okay. Yeah, read The Solitaire Mystery instead then. Legolas Send a noteboard - 13/08/2013 10:34:15 PM

View original postBoth as a young adult and a more adult-like person, I've always been a fan of plucky thirteen-year-old heroines figuring it out. I went into Sophie's World with the assumption that there would be a similarly appealing heroine, mixed in with some interesting philosophy, and was rather disappointed on both accounts.

That one has fewer aspirations to being an alternative HS philosophy textbook, and more to actually being a good story (though still with a good bit of philosophy in it). I enjoyed several other Gaarder works, like Through a Glass Darkly, when I actually was a teenager, but not sure if they would hold up on a reread as well.
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Recommend me a good book with a philosophical theme? - 11/08/2013 10:20:25 PM 1045 Views
Can't really help you there... - 11/08/2013 11:17:10 PM 845 Views
Re: Can't really help you there... - 12/08/2013 08:54:05 AM 865 Views
Have you read Sophie's World? - 11/08/2013 11:45:42 PM 1010 Views
Perhaps - 12/08/2013 09:03:39 AM 843 Views
Sophie's World really didn't do it for me. - 13/08/2013 02:35:18 PM 1199 Views
Well, it IS a YA novel... - 13/08/2013 05:10:03 PM 781 Views
But I like young adult novels! - 13/08/2013 10:18:07 PM 1240 Views
Okay. Yeah, read The Solitaire Mystery instead then. - 13/08/2013 10:34:15 PM 778 Views
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seconded! *NM* - 17/08/2013 06:14:36 AM 381 Views
Sartre is excellent in some ways but he is like Edward Gibbon in one way... - 12/08/2013 02:04:56 AM 754 Views
Heidegger's actually pretty good! - 13/08/2013 02:41:29 PM 1174 Views
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Re: Recommend me a good book with a philosophical theme? - 25/10/2013 04:04:00 AM 839 Views

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