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What does /lit/ think of Walden?

>> No.4736961

Thoreau is an unparalleled artist. Dissecting this beautiful critique of values is a wonderful experience indeed.

>> No.4736968

I prefer Walden Two.

>> No.4736975

>>4736968
mein nigger

>> No.4736983

>>4736945
>>4736961
Beautiful book, indeed.

>> No.4737025

>>4736968
total shit

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>>4736968
What's it like? Why is it better?

>> No.4737326

>>4737200
Look it up on Wikipedia. Apparently it promotes the complete death of free will. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a naturalist, I think there is an underlying natural function that guides every living thing on this planet and connects it to the environment it evolved in, but I really don't think that free will doesn't exist because of it. That being said, I might read Beyond Freedom and Dignity to see his side of the argument, but from what I can see, it's a really shitty way to view the human spirit.

>> No.4737861

>>4736945
Thought it was great.
Thoreau seems very aware of his own intelligence, and sometimes it comes across as superiority - in passages where he talks up his own way of life and criticizes others (almost comes across as rationalising) and when he describes things of little interest to anyone, as if any observation of his is worth the time of the reader.

That being said those are my only criticisms of a book that is otherwise stellar. Interesting in his prose, philosophy and general way of life - I picked this up knowing nothing about thoreau, just out of general interest of reading about some dude in the woods with nothing to do. People are just interested in that [citation needed, author references self to make claim]