Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

I'm writing this review around four years after my entire German class DNF the book, so this review will be more of a mini rant than a serious review.

The 16 year old sophomore that was me, did not enjoy this book. I find and have always found philosophy interesting, but in my opinion, the way this book tries to teach philosophy is boring. I find that it tried to force a plot between the lessons/lectures to appeal to a younger audience, but my entire class (10-12 grades) struggled to read this book (the only reason why we were even reading this book is because it was an AP class and my teacher wanted us to read a “serious/mature” book in German).

On the day we decided that this book was either a) too boring for us or b) too advanced for some of the students to understand in German, everybody concluded that the dog was the only thing worthwhile about this book.

I'm not sure if I would find this book more interesting now that I've “matured” or if I'd enjoy it more if I read it in English instead of German, since unfortunately as a native speaker, reading German is annoyingly difficult for me.