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Andria
May 02, 2024 rated it it was ok
Oh, this is a struggle of a rating. For the history of philosophy in under 400 pages, 4 stars easily. This book pours through philosophical progression from the ancient Greeks through the 1990s in impressively gentle fashion given the vast existence-defining questions at its core. If you go into this as a replacement for a Philosophy 101 textbook, I think you'll be quite pleased!

For the actual novel part? 1 star. -1 star? Oof.

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tried to read this book as a teen ... got much more out of it when in my late-thirties.
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