Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder

I liked that this book gave a good overview of philosophy, and found the explanations of most of the philosophy easy to digest & simple, but the structure of the book was so gimmicky that for me it didn't work well, and in particular after 2/3 I just wanted it to be over. I finished it out of stubbornness - I rarely leave books unfinished, but this one tempted me to.

Rarely have I read a book that I didn't enjoy reading that I got so much out of. As a novel for me it doesn't work at...more I liked that this book gave a good overview of philosophy, and found the explanations of most of the philosophy easy to digest & simple, but the structure of the book was so gimmicky that for me it didn't work well, and in particular after 2/3 I just wanted it to be over. I finished it out of stubbornness - I rarely leave books unfinished, but this one tempted me to.

Rarely have I read a book that I didn't enjoy reading that I got so much out of. As a novel for me it doesn't work at all, as far as the writing style goes I wasn't very impressed (and found it quite uneven) but for just the philosophy angle & cleverness of a new approach, I'm more forgiving.