Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder climate that he's too strange

that he's too strange

military satellites and communications are shut down by unknown sources

a post-war Glasgow upbringing is somewhat alien to the antipodean author and Stephenson errs towards Angela's Ashes intonation as she describes her husband's tenement childhood (Scots readers may also find her regular translation of seemingly self-explanatory Scots phrases--which Connolly would use--obtuse)

Houston Chronicle “[A] well-written and moving book

writing as rapture

Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder climate that he's too strangeDiscovering two thought provoking philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher and begins to receive some equally unusual letters