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Meh. Drudgery. I forced myself to give this one a real shot and read 3/4 or more of it, but I just couldn't continue on. It was boring. Dull. Drudgery. I have never read anything else by Thoreau and this one left me with a bad taste in my mouth. It would take a lot of convincing for me to read another of his tales.
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When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. ...more
Opening lines:
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. ...more
I can't pretend that (especially after reading civil disobedience) Thoreau wasn't kind of a pretentious tool. But, as frequently happens when I read autobiographical works of writers I dislike, I disliked him less after reading this. I enjoyed his trek into the woods even if he kept changing opinion like a crotchety old man complaining about society's ills. "man should stop reading- especially crappy newspapers!" "boy do I love newspapers. People should def read newspapers. " "man would be bette
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