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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
well, it took me a year, but i'm finally not lying when i say i've read it. and i'm glad i did. interesting, important, irritating in all the expected ways and in many unexpected ways, and we STILL DON'T KNOW WHO DID THE DAMN LAUNDRY and i agree with solnit that it's fairly irrelevant. i think i liked the impassioned rambling about bread the best. and now i can move on with my life.
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Civil Disobedience was an interesting read that I think is just as necessary now as when it was penned.
Walden was all over the place and rambling. Not something I think I'm likely to seek out again, even if living out in the woods appeals to me and I found it interesting to hear from someone who did that
Walden was all over the place and rambling. Not something I think I'm likely to seek out again, even if living out in the woods appeals to me and I found it interesting to hear from someone who did that
adventurous
inspiring
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Beautiful musings, observations, and prose on the world both natural and manufactured, internal and external. Yes maybe he wasn’t completely forthright with how much he would go to his parents house and have some treats but I don’t care! It’s a strange feeling to discover that someone else - in fact many people - all independently observe , interpret, and want to move through the world in similar ways to me and I hadn’t ever felt that way from a book before this
I really had no clue what to expect when I picked this book up. I had never read it, and was only introduced to Thoreau through a grad course reading requirement of his. I fell in love then and this book continued that love. While many of his ideas are now cliche, to think that he was speaking them at a time when it was unheard of is incredible to me. There were many "ah ha" moments, when I realized things about everyday life that had not been clear to me before. Ideas about living simply and therefore more happily. That owning things can sometimes weigh you down much more than being "poor". He was an enlightened being who recognized the power of human will and thought. I think most people had to read this in high school which I don't agree with. At that stage in life I dont believe many are ready for all the ideas presented. I read it at the perfect time in my life and can't wait to read more of his works.
Yeaaah I'm not going to finish this anytime soon. Maybe in a few years when I have more brain cells to spare.
Thoreau has to be one of the most ridiculous, annoying, self-indulgent, absurdist characters/authors in all of American literature... and yet his sincerity and lack of affectation is clear throughout, and one learns to distinguish when he is being earnest and tongue-in-cheek – this distinction is a key part of the argument itself, which builds throughout the book (really a long essay in careful, meditative chapters). A political philosophy, an ethic of the self, a careful and prescient naturalist study, an intimate journal, a book of proverbs... Many things to return to here and I look forward to reading it again in ten years.
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