Sophie's Planet is one particular of the most one of a kind novels I have ever study in my life, and I am proud to say I personal each the hardcover and softcover versions of the book as properly as Jostein Gaarder's other performs.
Sophie's Planet will deliver readers with not only an intriguing fictional plot, but a history lesson on philosophy as nicely.
Prior to Sophie Amundsen's fifteenth birthday, she receives a mysterious letter in the mail from a single Alberto Knox, a friendly philosopher who starts to educate Sophie on the history of philosophy dating back to Socrates and functioning its way up to the deliver time. As Mr. Knox teaches Sophie about philosophers all through time, Sophie quickly starts to receive other strange letters written involving an additional teenager named Hilde Moller Knag and her father Albert. A complex mystery arises from the exchanges of all these letters involving the novel's characters, and creates a fantasy-like, Alice-in-Wonderland-kind really feel.
This novel is a fantastic substitute for a boring philosophy textbook, which in my opinion is a dry topic to start with. Sophie's Planet is most likely the very best way to discover about philosophy! Even much more redeeming is the fictional portion of the novel, so even though readers might develop bored and want to skip over the philosophy lesson bits, you will nonetheless discover your self becoming pulled in sufficient to finish the whole lengthy book.
Personally I believed the philosophy lessons had been tiresome, but Jostein Gaarder paints such a stunning image and story that Sophie's Planet really is compelling.
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