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nonsense  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

Your number five pick, could you give a little more story behind it? Sounds interesting





Captain_Ozone  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sure. The book starts with a little girl in Norway during the 1980's. She lives with her mother and her father is in the UN away. One day she receives a letter containing questions and a philosophy reading from a person who calls himself Alberto Knox. They correspond for a while, Sophie learns about philosophy, when she receives a postcard saying happy birthday to someone else with the same birthday called Hilde. SPOILERS AHEAD

SPOILERS Alberto and Sophie meet, then Aberto tells Sophie that she is only a character in a book, entitled Sophie's World, on philosophy that is a birthday present. The viewpoint then switches the Hilde, who is reading about Sophie as Sophie figures out that she is a character in a book. Sophie then tries to break out, eventually becoming a spirit, unable to interact with Hilde and the real world. SPOILERS

Essentially, you're reading a book about a person reading a book about a person reading books about philosophy.