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Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
by Henry David Thoreau

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I don't know what I expected, exactly... a quaint and earthy meditation on the land and man... something that might be published in Mother Earth News? I'm surprised and delighted by this quirky book, so far. I laugh out loud almost every other page at Thoreau's idiosyncratic style. I'll review again, hopefully, once I've finished.

By the way, I think I was assigned this in high school, and dawdled through it so badly, in such a high school fashion, that I feel like I never cracked the cover. Anyone have this experience with a "classic"?

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message 1: by Jonathan
06/20/2007 08:25AM

91339 I dawdled through Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath so poorly in high school that I never really want to touch it again. I really disliked it then and think it'd just drum up that era of schooling again to try to read it now. Bleck.

Good to know Thoreau's so entertaining. He was pals with Emerson, who I'm reading some from now, journals that mention H.D.T. fairly often.

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message 2: by Joanna
06/25/2007 02:46PM

84290 Love this review, Gala, and will definitely put it on my to-read list.

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message 3: by Gala
06/02/2008 08:19AM

90743 officially gave up on finishing this one. echoes of high school and college, where i read loads and loads of first chapters of classics. sigh...

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