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Sophie’s World

Jostein Gaarder

Start date: December 1, 2013

Finish date: December 31, 2013

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Apr 05, 2009 Jen rated it did not like it

This book ruined philosophy for me forever. Maybe because my 11th grade English teacher forced us to read it.

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Aug 09, 2007 Astrid Lim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, literature, europe, phylosophical, history, popsugar-2021

Rereading this book for Popsugar reading challenge (category: previous DNF), since I didn't really finish it when I read this years ago.

Rereading it now until the end, I'm not surprised that I abandoned this book, it's so very dense XD I kinda like the story about Sophie and Alberto (although Alberto sounds like a jerk initially), but some parts of the lectures are too boring and long. I also have a mixed feeling about the ending of the book, and how Gaarder took us to a surreal look about booki ...more

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