A long long time ago, when I was in High School, we had to read The World of Sophy for our course on Philosophy. I refused to read the book then, because I couldn get past page 10 because it annoyed me. I couldn’t really pinpoint why.

A few months ago I renewed my interest in Philosophy and figured I should try this book again. My high school self was a big of an egghead after all, with her classes in ancient Greek and having read Plato in the original language and all that. I figured I probably felt too good for this book and it was probably pretty okay.

But no, my teenage self was spot on, cause this book still annoys the hell out of me. However now I can also pinpoint why. First off, the lead character at the start of the book, Sophy, is annoying and inconsistent. She switches from overly polite to rude without a cause. The story itself is slow and not believable at all. And the worst of it is, if you’ve maanged to struggle through half of it… Suddenly the maincharacter switches and you have to read a recap of the whole thing again!!

It sucks. Don’t read it.