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A review by sarazeen95
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
4.0
Philosophy. Yawn. Or maybe not. Maybe you’ve already noticed some odd things that we believe in, like “money” — cured bits of tree bark that can apparently drive people to madness, or “free will” — which contradicts so strongly with the idea of predestination that neither concepts make sense. After all, who can possibly know why or how the world truly works. Those were the exact questions that Sophie never cared about. Until she gets her mail, and is swept away via a correspondence course with a mysterious stranger to the questions that we all wonder but never voice.
This book was like nothing I’d encountered before, and that’s not just because Gaarder mixed philosophy with mystery and a dash of thriller. It’s a bizarre combination, and it works!
Or maybe you fell asleep at the first word and now you’re pondering philosophy itself — in which case, sleep tight! When you wake up, look up SOPHIE’S WORLD by Justin Gaarder. It’s brilliant.
This book was like nothing I’d encountered before, and that’s not just because Gaarder mixed philosophy with mystery and a dash of thriller. It’s a bizarre combination, and it works!
Or maybe you fell asleep at the first word and now you’re pondering philosophy itself — in which case, sleep tight! When you wake up, look up SOPHIE’S WORLD by Justin Gaarder. It’s brilliant.