i highly recommend this book, and i often give it to friends as a birthday or christmas gift...and the success rate for them reading it and loving it has been 100% so far!

it's a very playfully written little fantasy/mystery/fairy tale for children OR adults, but at the same time it's a tutorial on the history of philosophy that's so in-depth that it has a glossary in the back of the book. when you're done with this novel, you feel like you've actually learned something, and you also feel like you've finished a really fully thought-out novel. and it's very light-hearted, but not so much that it's terribly cheesy. it's kind of in the same vein as the narnia books or alice in wonderland, though maybe a little bit more sophisticated and rooted in the modern world. if you're traveling a lot and need a really long book that's a page-turner, i highly recommend this book.

I did not like it, I even ended up skipping all the parts set in Futura Book because san-serif fonts are so hard to read. I watched the series on TV and it was OK.

yeah, i don't like the sans serif font business either, but i don't know how else they can do the book-in-a-book thing....i got used to it, i guess. there was a series? i'll have to see if it's on DVD.

Norwegian sounds so cute spoken

I think you would like this book

i know...i'm years behind the rest of the world (i just fininshed it last week)..but i REALLY enjoyed this book