Has anyone on this board read it?
How was it?
It was a beatiful trip
>>7792109
stale
Short enough that you should be able to read it for yourself without needing someone to tell you about "how it is" first.
No, not a single person who frequents a literature board has read one of the best literary works of all time
>>7792109
Yeah, it's beautiful. Check this out. It looks nice, but shipping outside the US is 50 dollars. >>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2001070129/the-new-walden
>>7792197
i don't know lil nigga, I haven't seen Walden being discussed here often
>>7792109
y
it was good, just read it
>>7792197
>best literary works of all time
what a funny joke you just made
>>7792265
that's because there are millions of literary works and to discuss every one of even the most significant ones often we would need a ridiculously large userbase
twiggy has
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2001070129/the-new-walden
I hope you all pledged
>>7792290
Do we really need a new edition of Walden with this guys annotations? Didn't he want to "remove offensive material" originally?
Please fuck off with shilling your kickstarter.
>>7792109
It's a good book, but not exactly what you would consider thrilling. I would read it at a steady but slow pace.
>>7792197
To be fair, Walden is only read by Americans.
>>7792318
It was veiled as modernizing it, but essentially yes. He replaced "men" with "people" under the guise that modern audiences wouldn't respond to the original gender neutrality of the term "man". Even more idiotically he replaced "manliest" with "most personable" as if they are in any way synonyms. I honestly don't know how he managed to reason with himself that modern audiences wouldn't be able to respect or accept the word man in a 160+ years old text.
>>7792109
Didn't age well as his reasoning why we should partake in the lifestyle he was trying to have are often silly and are coated with a tinge of awful snobbism. I couldn't care less about vague "one with the nature" arguments favoring his indulgences instead of different ones.
>>7792358
>He replaced "men" with "people" under the guise that modern audiences wouldn't respond to the original gender neutrality of the term "man". Even more idiotically he replaced "manliest" with "most personable" as if they are in any way synonyms. I honestly don't know how he managed to reason with himself that modern audiences wouldn't be able to respect or accept the word man in a 160+ years old text.
jesus christ. world war 3 when?
I thought I'd love it because I hate people and love the wilderness irl, but I actually found it very boring and gave up about a quarter of the way in. I was expecting some sort of over-the-top romantic prose about the beauty of nature, but instead he seemed to talk about his experience in a pretty straightforward and mundane way - I remember a few pages were just devoted to his shopping list.
Maybe I was a bit too young to appreciate it, I'd certainly like to try it again soon but I've already got a heap of books on my to-read list.
>tfw having trouble reading it
Am I retarded or is the book actually somewhat difficult?
Being russian, I find his language a bit difficult.
>>7793145
Lmao upboated xD
Thoreau's a cunt. It was alright.
