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8 months ago
I appreciated this kind of writing, I wonder how can Thoreau described so much in this book. He found much fun around Walden, he was so great.
How to read Walden
It made me
Relieved 
"The last chapter was so amazing; I felt I should have skipped straight to it."
How I did it: I just kept returning to it again and again in quiet moments. I was reading like five other books at the same time. Thoreau spends a lot of time describing nature and being a little, well, full of himself. He doesn't make a lot of important points until the last chapter, I felt. And I was surprised by how much company he ended up having.
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14 months ago
I’m 40 pages into it. I was trying to look up all the words I didn’t know but it takes too long and takes all the fun out of reading this book.
lipglosskiller too many fingers, too many thumbs..something wicked this way comes
I think
21 months ago
Thoreau might have it right..
marialeigh knows tomorrow will be better--yes it will--I know it will
I read Walden one summer when my husband and I went to the UP
to visit the Sioux Locks. He drove and I would read passages out of Walden to him. It is a very precious memory for me. I don’t know how a person cannot be moved by Thoreau’s writing and messages.
It’s been a long time since I read Walden, but I will definitely read it again.
Common $ense Should have a great job starting next week!
Giving up
2 years ago
I read half of economics…maybe another time.
Common $ense Should have a great job starting next week!
My friend gave this to me...
2 years ago
after I finished reading 1985 by George Orwell. Haven’t gotten into this book so far. Once I “get in” to a book I can’t put it down. Still in the first chapter, Economics.
Saafir is failing forward
Fascinating!
2 years ago
I loved reading this book. Each page was full of insight, imagery, and contrarian wit. This is definitely a desert-island book. It deserves its reputation.
Free audiobook available....
2 years ago
Librivox (librivox.com) have produced a free audiobook. There is also a bit torrent file available (use the uTorrent search facility for “Walden” or “Thoreau”) however I am unsure of the copyright status of that recording.
I am enjoying listening to the audiobook so far and it certainly seems to fit with the rather basic life I am living at the moment (living on a boat).
mejaka is on the preferred substitute list--for Project. Weird.
a thing to remember
2 years ago
about Walden is that even Thoreau came back. He never intended it to be a way of life, but rather a challenge—like athletic types who do triathlons. He wanted to learn what it could teach him, but in the end he didn’t make the change permanent.
But boy…what it taught him. And he was such a naturalist. His experiments make fascinating study.
I have the book, now I just need to read it!
3 years ago
I bought a really nice and annotated version of Walden from Amazon this week. Unfortunately, it has so many footnotes that it’ll take me months to get through them all. I’ve already started the first section, but it’s tough going. I want to keep at it because it seems like it’s the type of book that can change one’s life.
