/lit/ - Literature

>>22847577

thoughts on Walden? reading it for the first time right now and absolutely love it. his views on class, modern expression and reconnection with nature are spot on imo

When Thoreau says it he’s a genius and an American treasure, when Kaczynski says it he’s a madman.

Democracy in America - Alexander de Tocqueville
Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford
The Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt
Roughing It - Mark Twain
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology - Stanley Appelbaum
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
Autumntide of the Middle Ages - Johan Huizinga
The History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of Monmouth
Selected Poems - Lord Byron
Tales of the Dying Earth - Jack Vance
Conan: The Barbarian Complete Collection - Robert E. Howard
Walden & Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Arthurian Romances - Chretien de Troyes

Just finished my first book of 2022!

Probably this book made me look at the absurdity of society, living in simplicity and the virtues of connecting with nature. The book actually delves deep into human as shaped by society and this an old book.

>>18724933
Walden by Henry Thoreau

I don’t get it, he doesn’t even live in solitary?

Take the Walden pill, Anon.

>>18303950
start with this one

I’m finding this really difficult to read and understand, does anyone know some good supplementary lectures/essays on Walden that will make it easier to understand?

>>17912800

I listened to Thoreau, and I've been chopping down trees for a couple months on my parent's acreage in order to build a greenhouse for my recently-medically-retired mom. But at 27 years old I constantly judge myself for everything I can, so even something as noble as helping my mom deal with depression comes with getting mad at myself every night for not doing more. I judge myself from a future perspective looking back, knowing how pathetic a life I'm leading, and I try desperately to live within certain boundaries while building strength. But the answer is to just be honest and face consequences, as Frank Sinatra says, "I did it my way, I said the things I truly feel and not the words of one who kneels."

I just need to get stronger. Stronger in every way, stronger than anything that comes my way, so that I can live an honest life and successfully overcome the consequences.

I will take it as a "yes" then.
Can't wait to see the next Walden but concerned with staying in the ISS for a long time, or so.

>>17414671
the classic

henry david thoreau
every word i read teaches me more about myself

Is this actually a good philosophy book or just burgers hyping their "culture"?

>feeling hopeless lately
>pick Walden back up again by chance
>"I sometimes despair of getting any thing quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again, and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor."
I feel you... I'm not far enough in to know how you cope with it though.

I can't read more than a few paragraphs of this before I start crying from relief

>>17165326

Books like Walden? Focusing on our relationship with nature?

>2 years and 2 months
without satire, whom is he trying to impress? These are some rookie numbers, methinks.

What's the best part?