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Walden by Henry David Thoreau

elcapu's review against another edition

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challenging reflective slow-paced

2.0

superraven666's review against another edition

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3.0

Ce texte est un poème et une hymne à la nature et aux cieux, mais ce n'est pas ce à quoi je m'attendais. Malheureusement, même si le but visé est plutôt intéressant, il faut dire que le texte a perdu beaucoup de sa fraîcheur. Cela m'affecte de le dire mais la seule partie du livre qui m'a vraiment intéressé et ne m'a pas perdu dans les élucubrations de Thoreau est la Conclusion, qui fait environ 9 pages...
Bien sûr, ma perception du livre est influencée par ce que j'ai déjà lu de lui. Dans un contexte poétique et métaphorique, peut-être que ce qu'il nous fournit ferait vraiment le bonheur de tous les lecteurs, d'où les quelques points positifs que je lui donne.

Par contre, je vous conseille de lire sa Théorie de la Désobéissance Sociale, qui est un texte vraiment important et intéressant, et où il nous perd pas dans des longs (vraiment longs) discours.

geekberry's review against another edition

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Not in the right mood to slog through this at the moment.

knitted_bookworm's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

1.0

megalobob's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

christinadewey's review against another edition

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Boring, difficult to understand. The annotations were interruptive and didn’t help me to understand what Thoreau is talking about in a general sense. 

fiveredhens's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

  1. i like bill mckibben but it was not worth paying $10 for his sparse annotations of a public domain book
  2. honestly a little funny how much thoreau hated the irish. dude walks up to a guy's farm, describes his baby as cone-headed starveling brat, and then starts lecturing him like "why do you choose to work so hard? if you saved X dollars, you could build a cabin in the woods like me and have all the necessities of life . if you stop considering tea, coffee, butter, milk, and meat necessities". i mean i'm a vegetarian who loves bread but jesus dude

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soupgirl9's review against another edition

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4.0

stop normalizing the grind and normalize whatever this is

elegyeldritch's review against another edition

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5.0

I loved this book! It's a classic. Thoreau's descriptions were so detailed that I felt I was rowing lazily along on his pond by the woods, listening to his inspiring philosophic reflections.

ctesc's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.0

I always knew that Thoreau was boring, hypocritical, and pretentious, but now I can back it up with evidence.