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    <body><![CDATA[I'm adding this on 12-17-09:<br/>I have been checking this in and out of the library since August, I think will just post as I go. It is just too dense to somehow, summarize with a simple “Thumbs up!” More recently I have been focusing on how Emerson represented and interpreted a certain climat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79659000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing I like the best about Emerson is that he provides a pattern of life that I can live with.  He balances the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical lives in a way that seems quite useful to me.<br/><br/>I probably won't give this five stars just because he can be long-winded and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56132167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Am I putting this up here just to make myself look smart?  Ummm...let's skip that one, and just say that I'd never read him before, might have missed him if it hadn't been assigned for class and I really loved this book.  Scary how perfectly someone could nail the America of today when writing over ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41284676">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[He stopped writing about nature (&quot;Nature&quot;) and got a lot heavier (&quot;Self-Reliance&quot;) after his young son died. Interesting to see such a massive shift.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book i love it concise and to the point another book for the serious minded]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Self-Reliance&quot; must be read by everyone wishing/thinking themselves American.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll freely admit I skipped a lot of the early stuff, which is frankly boring to me -- way too dense and too much of a challenge to follow his thinking.  But the two series of Essays are pretty terrific.  I had varying degrees of difficulty with each, but they're all worth the effort even if I can't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58599629">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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