The Solitaire Mystery

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  Solitaire used to be one of my favourite card games when I was young, and every time when I played I completely negated the very Joker. As it's never be part of the game, if it's alive, I would imagine the Joker just standing aloof from the crowd and observing disdainfully how the other fifty-two c ... (continue)

  Solitaire used to be one of my favourite card games when I was young, and every time when I played I completely negated the very Joker. As it's never be part of the game, if it's alive, I would imagine the Joker just standing aloof from the crowd and observing disdainfully how the other fifty-two cards hustled themselves matching with each other and finding their leagues, ending up whether forming an unresolved mess, or restoring order handsomely. If our world was a huge Solitaire playing by God, who would you be in this game, one of the fifty-two cards finding their matches, or the uninvolved Joker trying to see through the meaning of life?

  Besides the philosophical messages it carries, the book is cleverly written and enjoyable reading: through joker, baker, sailor, Hans, and the goldfish to link all characters and flow through the mysterious adventure. It's never been seriously lecturing philosophical topics as Sophie's World does, yet it's inspirational, and importantly, it gives a new meaning of Solitaire to me.

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  Scorpi said on Nov 30, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  What philosophy??

  It's said this book likes Sophie's World with a philosophical content, but unlike Sophie's World, it does not explicitly mention philosophers and theories. However, as the reader, I was unaware that I was actually engaging in philosophy.

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  Weerabbit said on Jul 8, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Ever since Sophie's World, Gaardner has hooked me into his world. He is a virtuoso in creating different realities with a phisophical twist.

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  Ruby said on May 9, 2006 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Joker is always unwelcomed and lonely. The question is: Do we have the wisdom to be a Joker with wits or continue behaving as an ordinary playing card who losts its heart?

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  MilkFish said on Feb 5, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Good story plot. The story runs smoothly with warmth and love. A classical story as simple and throughful as fiary tales. Re-readable as it is simple and lovely and is my most favourite type of reader.

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  Marysoop said on Jun 12, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  If Sophie's World is your cup of tea, then The Solitaire Mystery is a real delicacy. Unlike the former novel, which can resemble a series of philosophical lectures too rich for some to bear, the latter manages to be short and sweet yet still delivers the punch. It is still about philos ... (continue)

  If Sophie's World is your cup of tea, then The Solitaire Mystery is a real delicacy. Unlike the former novel, which can resemble a series of philosophical lectures too rich for some to bear, the latter manages to be short and sweet yet still delivers the punch. It is still about philosophy, but is cleverly written using a pack of cards to symbolize life and people.

  This book urges us not to forget to ask the most basic philosophical questions: Who are we? Why are we here? The important point lies not in finding the answers, but in asking the questions. The fact that we are alive is itself an unbelievable fortune. We should not take life for granted or conform to the tedium of life mindlessly. Instead, we should keep asking questions and searching for the meaning of our existence. We all need our inner Joker to remind us not to lose our curiosity towards life.

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  Holmes said on Jun 8, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 352 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 1857998650
• ISBN-13: 9781857998658
• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Pub date: Jun 02, 1997
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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