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    <body><![CDATA[The very first time I read Walden my immediate response was to begin torching its pages one by one and sacrificing each page as  literary cow paddies written by a pompous celibate pretentious boob who masqueraded as self-appointed demigogue for the collective conscience of the gods; and of course, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17225363">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my gosh, I don't need to mention the good things I've learned reading Thoreau, but I MUST say that every passionate Thoreau fan I ever met in college was a COMPLETE DOUCHEBAG in a very eco-friendly, pseudo-hipster, sweetly male-centric way. Ugh one time when I was a sophomore I had to choose a to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28130096">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Woefully overwritten to the point where most modern readers who might be moved by Thoreau’s transcendentalism will be put off by the prose alone. If that doesn’t get them, his elitist attitude probably will. Thoreau took Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ideals of choosing for yourself and added, “but y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47952335">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading this right now on my travels around Illinios and Michigan. How many other books are you going to read that devote four entire pages to describing the way the ice on a pond in winter looks and feels? Thoreau is very disapproving of his fellow humans and society (in a very self-righteous p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4987047">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel a bit pretentious putting this book on as my first review, but I've read it twice in the last two years (once independently and then for my book club), so I figured I'd put it on.<br/><br/>This is a really good book.  One of the things thats nice is that it's very hard to pigeonhole.  It's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50713731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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