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For general philosophical background I'd recommend Sophie's World. It's mostly history-of-philosophy, but I think it works well as a fairly light way into the field.
Notice though that Sophie's World only goes into philosophy up to Freud. The philosophy that Starts with Russell and ends with Drescher doesn't get any say on it.
It is a very fun book about very bad philosophy. But so is "A History of Western Philosophy" by Russell himself.
Yeah, it's mostly history, but I think even for modern philosophy it's worthwhile for background and inspiration.