Pompous, elitist, overwritten. The purplest of purple prose. You have to go at this book with a shovel to get at anything of value. Pages and pages of uninteresting drivel. Mind numbingly repetitive. If you want to know if you will like this book, simply pick it up and open it to any random page. Re...
I read Walden with my environmental history sections last week. Only a couple of them had ever read any Thoreau, although they all had a sense of who he was and what he stood for. It was interesting talking about Walden in a history class, rather than in English, which was where I first encountere...
I finally got around to reading Thoreau's Walden. Good book, but I can't believe they have high school kids reading it. The very beginning and the very end contain most of the philosophical bits, while the middle is a pleasant meditation on getting away from society and observing nature. With no ...
'Walden' is an elegant and at times moving journal of Thoreau's sojourn in living in/with nature. His observations and thoughts concern a variety of subjects such as growing your own food, building a house, watching the patterns of animals and plants, etc. But Thoreau also reflects on the human ways...
Thoreau and his smug attitude need a solid bitch-slap by true reality. Just because you can survive in the woods for a couple years with no one else to care for but yourself, doesn't mean it's easy. I'm not saying Walden doesn't have some commendable theories and ideals, but spending a little time i...
My senior year of high school, I took an elective unit of American lit, which was taught by a teacher who was really burned out and had no business still being in a classroom. After a couple of weeks of wrangling the class lunkheads, who were only interested in screwing around, one day she simply p...
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