This book was chosen by my book club group (a group of four, grade 7 girls). Not only were they engaged in the conversations but were inspired to think more deeply about their world, their choices, and their influences. Furthermore, the rhetorical choices made in the story was masterful, at times. The author was clever enough to be able to write some of the logic and the concepts into the rhetoric, further illustrating the ideologies. As an English teacher, I am so happy to have been given such a nice text to work with and such an engaging text to inspire my students with.

I don’t get why are people hating on it in the comments. It’s a really fun, good, book to read. And it really helped me with school, although i didn’t even think about school when purchasing/reading it.

Why do ppl like it LUL

I had to read this for school and I actually really liked it. Although Sophie is very annoying it is a good read.

This book was them ost annoying book I had every read, unless you’re a philosopher..AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Many chapters are missing from this download! Ruined a good book

Great book, makes learning philosophy fun!!

I loved this book. It was a magnificent journey through western history and thought. It's intrigue made me want to expand on all the thought that we're presented here. Isn't that the ultimate goal of any book?

This is one of my favorite books ever. I read in for my senior AP English class and it just blew my mind. Everybody loved it just as much as I did. Gaarder gives his readers the general time line of philosophy and applies/demonstrates these philosophies through the plot. I wish there was a way that my hard copy could come with a digital download of this book, like those blu ray movies, so that I could have this book on my iPhone and read it whenever I can't have my book.

Great book but I downloaded it and there are pages missing. They have a red box in them saying fatal error. I re-downloaded twice and it still says the same thing. They are missing in important parts of the book. Please fix this so I can continue reading! I payed $10.00!