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Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
3.0

I showed up for the nature writing and thoroughly enjoyed those parts of the book. The rest is Thoreau's opinion and commentary on society and I was less into that.

Even his opinions that I agree with (the importance of contentment, for example) he expresses is such judgmental terms and his logic and analogies don't always track, so that I was irritated even while appreciating his overall point.