Sophies World

Jostein Gaarder, Fiction/Non Fiction
Rating: Stirfried bittergourd

I finally managed to get though all 500+ pages of Sophie’s World this year after trying every year since I was 14(my enthusiasm always dies somewhere around page 165). The book is about a girl called Sophie who one day begins to receive letters from a mysterious stranger. Mind you, this isn’t a Scandinavian paedophile story (Sophie lives in Norway) –Sophie’s World is about the History of Philosophy. Seriously. There’s stuff on Socrates and Plato, Jesus Christ, all the way up to Freud and Karl Marx. Not the sort of thing you’d stomach as a kid but something you grow to love as an adult (hence the title).