A Must Read

I am not exaggerating in any way. I agree with one review of this book saying that if ever you read one book in your whole life, this must be it.

It's philosophy made easy. It's an igniter of the inner philosopher in everyone, no matter how simple minded  you may seem to be. All we need, as the author puts, is the faculty of wonder. Actually it's a novel about the history of philosophy, condensing 3000 years of Western thought from Pre-Socratics to modern existentialists intertwined in a plot revolving around the unusual life of a little girl named Sophie. The novel opens with a qoute from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saying, "He who cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth."

Other books from Jostein Gaarder:

The Solitaire Mystery

The Christmas Mystery

Vita Brevis
Through A Glass, Darkly

I read the first two, and I must say Gaarder has a knack for originality. The Solitaire Mystery advises us to not make the world a habit, and Through A Glass, Darkly introduces a new concept on the divine.

Must reads!