I got 100 pages in and wanted to stick my head in a vat of boiling water. I HATED this book. I really hated it. How can one man talk so much shite about absolutely nothing? It honestly made me want to set things on fire. Who cares?! Who care about anything this man has to say? He doesn't care ...
I got 100 pages in and wanted to stick my head in a vat of boiling water. I HATED this book. I really hated it. How can one man talk so much shite about absolutely nothing? It honestly made me want to set things on fire. Who cares?! Who care about anything this man has to say? He doesn't care ...
Holier-than-thou Thoreau. The über-Hippie. The one who lived a stone throw away from his momma's kitchen. And from the Emersons'. From the civilization in general.Oh yea, aimma gunna say it the first thing that "I didn't want to get away from people in the first place". But then aimma gunna do my ve...
Beautiful imagery, but flawed. Thoreau is at his most poetic when he describes nature and his surroundings. He's pretty detached from reality, though. He doesn't seem to get that life isn't that easy for anyone.
Elegant language, amazing conclusion of humanism, independence and reverence. Sadly I was bored to death by all the accounts of his 'experiment' that take up the 17 chapters preceding the conclusion. Sure, he writes beautifully and had I been in a more leisurely mind I may have appreciated it quite ...
I recently reread this after many years and it's been interesting to note my reaction. While I was definitely inspired by the lofty ideals and sweeping language of this book on my first reading, my much-older self is forced to note the many, many holes in Thoreau's premises and arguments. His passio...
Walden (6/10): I don't remember who first said we needed an Archimedean point to philosophize, but I think he was totally wrong. When we find solitude and use that experience to philosophize we come up with philosophies that can't possibly work in the world. Yes, all writers need some kind of soli...
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