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Books by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
Der Geschichtenverkäufer
by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
· published 2000 · read 2007-10-01
★★☆☆☆
I remember the story as very obscure (as per usual for Gaarder) without much to say (unusual for Gaarder). Not sure if I missed the point entirely, and what it might have been.
Sophie’s World
by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
· published 1991 · read 2003-11-01
★★☆☆☆
Meh. Meh, I say. Books that preach at me have to be outstanding to convince me, not tedious and annoying and boring. They have to have characters and good reasons for their preaching, not two-dimensional cardboard cutouts who get a bit of action before it's time to get back to your regularly scheduled sermon. And they have to have content that is fascinating, not just reurgitating old philosophers and assume I care.
Das Kartengeheimnis
by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
· published 1990 · read 2006-04-01
★★☆☆☆
Similar to Sophie's World, a teenager is dragged into a mysterious philosophy course – this time accompanied by a journey. There's a mysterious dwarf and a tiny book that preaches at us, because that's how Jostein Gaarder rolls. It's exactly what you'd expect if you know any of his books.
Vita Brevis
by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
· published 1996 · read 2020-11-02
★☆☆☆☆ (did not finish)
Jostein Gaarder is hit-and-miss for me at the best of times, and this wasn't the best of times. Vita Brevis is the fictional letter (complete with frame plot about finding it in an old book store blah blah) of St Augustine's wife to the man himself after he became famous. It's St Augustine fanfiction. Not my genre.
The Christmas Mystery
by Jostein Gaarder, Anne Born
· published 1992 · read 2005-05-01
★☆☆☆☆
I find Gaarder grating when he's preaching about philosophy, I find him unbearable when he starts on religion. It doesn't help that every of his book has this "teenager stumbles on mysterious story, lets said story happily preach at him". I didn't enjoy the whole time travel thing either, and it didn't even put me in a Christmas mood.