A review by geothedude
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

2.0

Genuinely good thoughts and poignant observations are buried amidst paragraphs upon paragraphs of eye-roll inducing drudgery, self-important aggrandizing with a hilariously sharp lack of self-awareness, and general aimless anecdotes masquerading as wisdom. The importance of this work is lost on me, an admittedly ignorant modern reader, and therefore the whole of the work reads like an obscenely long “you had to be there” story.