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  <title><![CDATA[Sophies World]]></title>
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  <default_description>Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the  universe isn't  the  province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated.  A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a  discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent.  At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning.  The truth is far more complicated than she  could ever have imagined.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Sophie's World (Paperback)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jostein Gaarder]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 07 20:26:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me two months to get through this 500-page book. I can rationalize the reasons thusly:<br/><br/>— I was busy.<br/><br/>— I took time to absorb the content of the book. Instead of rushing through it, I let each chapter sink in before I moved on.<br/><br/>But that’s, you know, rati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21825601">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a philosophy major in school and *everybody* would ask if I had read Sophie's World.  &quot;What an amazing book!&quot; they would gush.  &quot;You'll love it!&quot;<br/><br/>So I bought it.  Purchased the book, let it simmer on my shelf for awhile, and finally picked it up a few years ago t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2968484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5379589">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 30 14:47:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 04 16:44:50 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What went right in the beginning of with Sophie's World?  And what caused it to plunge so grievously, groan-inducingly wrong?  As a colleague commented to me, it's not often that we make it all the way through books that turn us off so dramatically.  True.  However, it's also unusual that a book wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5379589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21781154">
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  <read_at>Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 07 09:03:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>إن الميزة الوحيدة اللازمة لكي يصبح الإنسان فيلسوفاً جيداً هي قدرتة على الدهشة <br/>*<br/>ليس تماماً السؤال  أكون أو لا أكون ؟  بل يجب أن نتسائل عما نحن ؟ <br/>هل نحن ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21781154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3499782">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 25 07:23:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marx accused philosophers of describing the world and failing to change it. One of the extremely innovatinve aspects of this book is the author's ability to demonstrate how the world would be if philosophers did indeed change it. Bizarre though Berkeley, Hegel and Leibniz may seem to us, Gaarder doe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11083826">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 27 09:04:15 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 08 12:25:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The two things this book has going for it are: the plot and narrative frame are original and creative, and the story is more informative than most.  <br/><br/>The basic premise is that a 14-year-old Norwegian girl embarks on a correspondence course with a philosopher, and he teaches her the major ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11083826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8732160">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[get in Philosophy]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 05 22:43:33 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 06 12:25:19 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever got from your friend that notebook where you like to read or study from it? Have you every said thing such: “OMG, He got the professor’s idea and wrote it very well” or thing such: “great summary you did for these lessons, may you give it to me to copy it”. Jostein Gaarder is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8732160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4911664">
    <user id="34426">
    <name><![CDATA[Shawn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Roscoe, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 25 17:40:02 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 21 19:53:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 25 17:39:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>For the most part, the history of philosophy offered in Sophie’s World is sound, though of course often overly simplified. Such simplification is expected and acceptable in a book of this size and for its intended audience. It is at its best in the classical and medieval periods. As we get i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4911664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1184584">
    <user id="78563">
    <name><![CDATA[Arash]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 13 04:56:12 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 21 18:36:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[همانطور که پشت جلد کتاب نوشته است،«گردر» استاد ساده نویسی و ایجاز است.<br/>مطالعه این کتاب را مخصوصاً به کسانی که مطالعات فلسلفی کمی داشته اند توصیه میکنم.بیان ساده مس...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1184584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24032748">
    <user id="1223383">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Indianapolis, IN]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 08 20:54:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 16:55:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the book immensely. I studied basic philosophy in college so I soon became aware that many philosophers were left out and whole era's were glossed over in this book. You know, that's OK. One - It's not a text book and two - It's NOT a text book!<br/><br/>The stories are separate and fina...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24032748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7873839">
    <user id="385199">
    <name><![CDATA[Virgianti]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 17 23:30:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 17 23:30:42 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku ini gue baca udah lama banget, pas awal-awal gw kul di psikologi. Direkomendasikan oleh salah satu temen gw, ktanya bgs buat belajar filsafat. Secara gue waktu SMA ga pernah tau dg keberadaan ilmu filsafat sama sekali, dan gw harus menghadapi mata kuliah filsafat selama 2 tahun berturut2 (kalo ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7873839">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4466886">
    <user id="246667">
    <name><![CDATA[Diah Ayu]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Malang, Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who wants to know about philosophy]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 13 05:58:43 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 14 05:34:48 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[well, selesai baca buku ini, aku dapat dengan yakin memutuskan satu hal: aku gak suka filsafat.<br/><br/>bukan, bukan karena buku ini jelek. samasekali enggak. justru buku inilah yg bikin aku ngerti apa seh sbenernya filsafat itu. buku yg menceritakan para filsuf terkenal dan pemikiran mereka mule...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4466886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56153504">
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    <name><![CDATA[P_u_m_s]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ในที่สุดก็อ่านจบ! ในความพยายามครั้งที่ 5<br/>เล่มนี้เป็นหนังสือเล่มแรกๆที่ซื้อในชีวิต<br/>ที่ชอบมากจนตั้งใจอ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56153504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52409736">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[philosophy teachers]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Dennis Coelho]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 10:26:44 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 12 13:53:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The philosophy teacher, Alberto Knox, probably a literary stand-in for the author himself, laments that he knows of no good philosophy book for young people. <em>Sophie's World</em> is supposed to be that book. Written by a teacher of high school philosophy, written about a teenage girl who is abruptly drawn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52409736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30834471">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone   ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 21 16:08:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 07 12:38:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[                      <br/>                     Sophie's World is a magical tale in the vast philosophical world. From Plato to contemporary philosophy. <br/>                     Fantastic and great tale!.  Extraordinary travel in the past, present and future.....an odyssey.          <br/> <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30834471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[الرواية جميلة , فلسفية من الدرجة الاولى ...<br/>أعتقد لو أن الكاتب طرح المعلومات الفلسفية في الرواية وكان مجرد سرد لتلك الأفكار لما لقي النجاح الذي لقيه الآن كـ &quot;رواي...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17148483">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  This book is a personal victory for me.  I am currently entering the second great phase of reading in my life, and finally finishing this goddam book is responsible for that.  I haven't read many books since graduating high school, and in those days I would read all the time in and out of clas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8225467">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first saw the cover and read the summary of this book, it was very unnappealing and certainly not to my taste. I was unfamiliar with the hype it got so that didn't help. (I normally pay no attention to any accomplishments listed in the book itself)<br/><br/>I had a hunch that there would be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7379440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is to philosophy what Brysons <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= A Short History Of Nearly Everything" title=" A Short History Of Nearly Everything"> A Short History Of Nearly Everything</a> is to science, except it's nowhere near as enjoyable a read, and it's far more vague.<br/><br/>If you are already interested and educated in philosophy, then this book is not for you, as it only briefly touches on some t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/906865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this simultaneously with my ex. He skimmed the narrative parts and only read the philosophy. I did the opposite. We both hated it. Maybe it was our reading methods, but I'd prefer to blame Jostein. Fucking Jostein!]]></body>
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