Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (Everyman's Library (Paper))
by Henry David Thoreau
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I love this book "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was ...more
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Read in February, 2008
At first I was really excited to read this, when I was leaving the city for a couple of months to live in a cabin in upstate New York. It seemed heroic to read it on the subway, knowing I would escape and have not a pond but a stream that I would have to muse upon. Once I actually got to the woods, the last thing I wanted was to READ about them so I've lost steam. I would appreciate any encouragement on finishing this book!
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I hated this book. I had to read it last year (Junior year) for Ap Lit and it's probably one of the worst books I have ever read. This might be because he didn't talk about anything I was interested in.
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