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Feb 2022
5:13pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Columba
Not only time, but it's difficult to read a book like that in bed. Or indeed anywhere, except on a desk/table. Just finished Sophie's World and am now going to re-read The Promise and then put some sort of a review on the relevant thread. Anyone else know Sophie's World? It appears to be aimed at teenagers (Sophie being 14 when the story starts, 15 when it ends) but I think many teenagers wouldn't persist with it since it encompasses (indeed, largely consists of) a whistle-stop tour through the history of philosophy, starting with Pythagoras and ending in the early twentieth century (it was first published in 1990). |
Feb 2022
5:44pm, 16 Feb 2022
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McGoohan
Santa Badgey Top channelling
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Feb 2022
5:49pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Night-owl
I started Sophies World a while back I drifted away from it rather than dnf. Still have it
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Feb 2022
6:12pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Serendippily
I think you would hate Roth Greppers
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Feb 2022
6:19pm, 16 Feb 2022
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LindsD
I had the same experience Night-owl
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Feb 2022
7:05pm, 16 Feb 2022
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LazyDaisy
I recall a very earnest schoolfriend of son1's recommending Sophie's World to anyone who would listen. Her earnestness rather put me off but if Columba likes it maybe I should give it a go! I have ordered The Miracle of Castel di Sangro (secondhand copy) and have added The Caravaners to my wish list. I may be suggestible but I'm afraid I am still resistant to sci-fi |
Feb 2022
7:08pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Fields
I didn’t like Sophie’s world much, ground to a halt about 3/4 of the way through. I suspect it was a bit over my head
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Feb 2022
7:16pm, 16 Feb 2022
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GregP
Nice post Badgo. I didn’t read the second volume of Night’s Dawn because it was staring to get very silly. I liked Sophie’s World. Sue read another of his and liked it faintly. She’s reading the first in that Zola series at the moment and hating it very much. |
Feb 2022
7:43pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Chrisull
The wonderful Ukranian author Andrei Kurkov (he of Death and the Penguin), has penned this missive from Kyiv. newstatesman.com I didn't know about Grey Bees, but that very much seems like my kind of book. I've recently read next to no fiction (Kunzru's Gods without men is the one exception), but for Kurkov I will make an exception. |
Feb 2022
8:27pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Diogenes
The Promise is getting better and better. It’s full of surprises.
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