The Solitaire Mystery

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Summary: A marvellous book!
Review: This book is one of the best book I've ever read. I highly recommend you to buy this book of fairy tale for adult.Read it slowly and carefully so you can understand what it means.

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Summary: This book is fabulous.
Review: I picked it up this morning and read - totally captivated until I finished. It is a long time since I couldn't put a book down. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get lost in a book.

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Summary: Really bad
Review: It's difficult to believe that a great writer like Jostein Gaarder can write such an awful book. There's no coherent story line, and while the idea is good, I have to admit that this is just 368 pages of garbage. On the plus side, this book has finally cured my insomnia.

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Summary: Charming and very creative.
Review: Like a lot of other reviewers, I read the more famous Sophie's World first and found the long philosophy lessons a bit of a slog (and the whole set-up a bit unconvincing... if I found them a slog, would a 14yo girl really have stayed captivated?). When I picked up a remaindered copy of The Solitaire Mystery a few years later, however, I decided within pages that this was by far the better book, and wondered why SW got all the acclaim. The tale within a tale was dealt with much more seamlessly, the card themes were ingenious and imaginative, the storyline had more direction and was more moving, and Hans Thomas was far, far more plausible to me than Sophie. Unlike some other reviewers (who spoke deprecatingly of the "young adult" audience this book is supposedly aimed at), I loved the simplicity and clarity of the storytelling, and found this allowed the deeply emotional issues raised to be discussed in a way which was touching without ever being pretentious or sentimental. A lovely novel.

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Summary: Brilliant, I recommend it to everyone
Review: I bought this book after reading Sophie's World and didn't think it would be anywhere near as good. I was completely wrong, because it was even better! It's about a boy who finds a tiny book inside a bun given to him by a German baker. He begins reading the book and discovers it is the story of a man shipwrecked on an island with nothing but a pack of playing cards. As the time passes, the cards come to life and inhabit the island! The Solitaire Mystery is possibly the best book I have ever read and I would recommend it to anybody of any age.

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Summary: The best book I've ever read
Review: I really liked this book. It was a wonderful read. I rarely find a book so captivating I can't put it down, but this was one such book. After wading through half of Sophie's World, I was surprised by how much better this one was.

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Summary: This is an incredible book for ANYONE!
Review: I just was amazed when I first read this book. It was sounlike anything I had read before. I just reread it, and it wasamazement yet again for me. I will use this in my classroom, and I recommend it for ANYONE to read!!!

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Summary: full of imagination
Review: A little hard to follow at times, but one of the most entertaining books.Great for adults and young adults.

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Summary: Very good reading
Review: I found this book very similar in theme and storyline, to Josteins "Christmas Mystery", but I felt that it was a book that I would definitely read again, unlike "Christmas Mystery", which I felt that having read it once, I wouldn't be likely to read it again.

A thoroughly enjoyable story, with a very cleverly and well thought out storyline.

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Summary: Well worth a read
Review: Such a well-written novel in the sense that it managed to take me away and actually make me feel a part of the story. Deeply philosophical and subtly satirical of the way we look at life. It made me think a lot about "Alice in Wonderland".. there are a quite a few contrasts and similarities. The type of novel you would never get tired of reading years and years later.