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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
Thoreau was largely responsible for igniting my transcendental, degrowth/primitivist period in my later adolescence, prior to my political awakening. The image of Thoreau, solitary at Walden Pond, is the stuff of youthful dreams (especially as the unsavory reality of wage labor draws ever closer at the end of childhood).
I’m not a very well read person at 31 years old. This book made me feel good. It was nice to see observations and ideas being made by Thoreau that I have had it felt in my core but hadn’t ever tried to express. He is an excellent example for anyone that enjoys going against the grain and thinking for themselves.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
This guy is the OG rambler
I’ve returned to Walden and Civil Disobedience. It is very telling how different you take in a book when you read it in a completely different time in your life. I first read Walden and Civil Disobedience while I was getting my bachelors degree. Then when I was in graduate school in NYC, I went to Walden Pond, hung out, swam, visited Henry at his grave along with Emerson, Emily Dickinson and the like. Now I need the call back to simplicity and nature in a much different way then when I was just fresh from country living and 18 years young. I also need the Civil Disobedience so that when I am arrested at the next war protest, I will remember to bring a pen and paper!
One man’s tale of living it rough at the local lake, where he is visited weekly by his mom and sister to deliver cookies. There are beautiful and piercingly poignant passages in here about the natural world, but you have to wade through a lot of murky waters to get there. 2.5 ✨
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.
Hoogtepunt: minutieuze beschrijving veldslag mierenoorlog
reflective
slow-paced
reflective
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