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... of my translations from Japanese of largely witty poems with explanation may be read at Google Books. My most recent work, A Dolphin In The Woods (Touchstones gives only "Walden" for it! Well, I did help get Thoreau's other best book Cape Cod published in Japanese . . .) is full of such.
Ah, ... ... like the story is finally picking up.
At work I am just about finished Plato's Republic and should be able to pick up Walden by Henry David Thoreau by tomorrow. ... when it comes to short stories that is very random selection.
Of non-fiction there are again some bordeline cases...is Walden fiction or not? But again those picks are pretty random.
AFAIK they stuck to the premise of not including plays.
I would have appreciated if they would have ... 52 Walden
Walden was kind of hit and miss for me. I found some of the ideas interesting, the descriptions of animals were fun to read (although I found some of it a bit tedious). I found myself wishing I could go off and live on the banks of Walden for two years, although I'm not sure I'd do ... I should have read this by now
1- The shining
2- The graduate
3- Walden
4- Moby-dick
5- A Christmas carol ... reach and I actually blogged that title!
I miss my blog. Maybe its time to rev it up again.
Making progress through Walden slowly. Got distracted by the annotated editions of The Wind in the Willows. OOOO Walden! That is on my wishlist. What do you think of it.
I'm wading through The Stand and Different Seasons for a group read and George Washington for the US Presidental challenge. I really must buckle down and get them done. I have so many books on my next up pile and I keep ... Alternating between Walden and Death by Water with an occasional dip into the two annotated editions of Wind in the Willows. Also, on some bizarre impulse, I purchased an encyclopedia of Arthurian legend. Waiting for it to arrive and hoping I won't regret it. I'm reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau this week. ... last couple of months (it was a limited edition book or a snake for me ... the book won out).
I was also tempted by both Walden and The Natural History of Selbourne so I think I'm going to have to visit the Members' Room and have a look at them all. ... Louis Stevenson
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
5. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - MAR
6. On Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
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10. Walden? ... recommend it.
Musicophilia should be an audiobook with music pieces interspersed in it, but alas there is no music.
Walden was not easy for me to listen to, because there were many words I had to look up, and I got distracted easily and spent much time rewinding indeed, but OTOH, I could ... For some reason, I couldn't get Walden by Henry David Thoreau out of my mind yesterday. Although I had reviewed it and moved on to other books, I thought perhaps I hadn't done it justice, and that there was much more to Thoreau than I had perceived or appreciated due to my own lack of ... For some reason, I couldn't get Walden by Henry David Thoreau out of my mind yesterday. Although I had reviewed it and moved on to other books, I thought perhaps I hadn't done it justice, and that there was much more to Thoreau than I had perceived or appreciated due to my own lack of ... ... second in Sandra Gullard's Josephine Bonaparte trilogy. Good, light historical fiction which was right on time after the Walden debacle.
Now I am reading Revolutionary Road which has sucked me in rather quickly. I have a copy of The Divine Comedy, Walden and The Republic available for trade >88 and Walden-- I read Walden for an American Lit class recently, and while I think it's an important text in the American literary canon, I don't necessarily think it's an amazing or entertaining book. And I had similar frustrations with it as a reader!!!
I got really into Independence Day ... Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
A thought-provoking and sobering essay on life. His comments on economy, architecture, education, philanthropy and various other aspects of life are quite poignant.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential ... ... story.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Absalom, Absalom!
The Hamlet
Sometimes a Great Notion
All the King's Men
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At Swim, Two Boys
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Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence
Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
A thought-provoking and sobering essay on life. His comments on economy, architecture, education, philanthropy and various other aspects of life are quite poignant.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential ... >88: When I tried to read Walden I kept thinking, "Get a job!" and I was younger and much more tolerant than I am now. I am glad I am not the only one who lost patience! Reading Walden after finishing the excellent March by Geraldine Brooks. Sadly, it is a struggle and a slog for me. Thoreau seems a naive and selfish little boy underneath all the pretentious and ecstatic prose. Maybe I'm missing something. Half my Spring sale order arrived today!! Walden is beautiful. ... George Elliot, Chronicles of the Dark Ages and Rulers of the Ancient World sets. I also couldn't resist ordering Walden by Thoreau. If anyone has been on the fence about ordering from the Spring sale they should definitely call tonight before it's too late. ... fact, I would like to suggest a series of classic nature books printed on recycled paper: my own personal "core" library of Walden by Thoreau, My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, A Sand County Almanac by Leopold and Desert Solitaire by Abbey would be a good start. ... many things, or at least parts of them, every couple of years---Faulkner, To Kill a Mocking bird, All the Kings Men, Walden, Gardner's On Moral Fiction
And may I just interject a wee rant about the touchstones. To Kill a Mockingbird wouldn't come up until I made mockingbird two ... The big blue book in the photo was indeed the Temple of Flora. Beautiful up close. And I believe that is Walden between Metamorphosis and the Natural History of Selbourne. I was very excited to see it - though Emerson is my favorite transcendentalist, I do love Walden as well. It took me a few tries to get through Walden. In high school I plowed through it, in college I read it without much enjoyment, and in graduate school I found it very funny. Many people find nineteenth century writing styles tough but, like so many things, it gets easier as you go along. The only book I've given up on this year is Walden by Thoreau. I think that it tends to be a hit or miss for most people and for me it was a miss. Could hardly get past the first twenty pages. Good luck Suzie !
Guess what- today I just signed up for the Big Read of Walden, over on Dailylit.com :) 1. Walden, or Life in the Woods. --Henry David Thoreau
#58, after I read Thoreau's Walden, I felt anything I read after that just couldn't match him in the philosophy department. I completely agree about the difference between a how-to and a philosophical treatise. Count the book, you earned it! ...
Why isn't Shakespeare on the list? Is it because he wrote plays? And why isn't there more nonfiction? I saw Walden and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but why not include The Autobiography of Malcolm X and something by David McCullough? (And why isn't there a touchstone ... Walden; and I'd second Leaves of Grass. Well, I finished the Alchemist a few weeks ago and I have little good to say about it.
I started reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau which, from everything I've heard about it, is the type of book I'd enjoy reading but while I agree with much of what Mr. Thoreau has to say, he goes about it ... I could never live as simple a life as Thoreau did in Waldon Pond but I find it a lovely place to "visit" from time to time when "my head needs clearing." :-)
Very nice review. 28. Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
For those who don't know, this book is about a man who gave up most of his possessions and lived for two years in a small house by Walden Pond in Concord Massachusetts.
I always felt that I should read this book, since Thoreau was the father of the simple ... ... antation
2) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
3) The Federalist Papers
4) The Journals of Lewis and Clark
5) Walden
6) Uncle Tom's Cabin
7) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8) The Souls of Black Folk
9) The Promised Land- Mary Antin (Touchstones don't seem to like ... ... smaller limitations of the LEC--only 600 copies. The other great 20th century American lensman is Edward Steichen, who did Walden, or a Life in the Woods.
All of these bring premium prices because the signatures in them bring premium prices in the autograph market. The second priciest LEC ... ... reason), there were some quite outlandish sales made - $1,500 on Tom Sawyer, $865 for The old Man and the Sea, $511 for Walden, or Life in the Woods and many others above the $100 mark.
At the same time, many good (or even pristine) copies of other LEC books go for $20-30 each. Which ... ... of The Handmaid's Tale I can never remotely remember the storyline, just how I felt while reading it. Good luck with Walden - loved your description of Thoreau, by the way - you're sure he's not being satirical sometimes, like Thomas Moore was in Utopia?
Okay, enough rambling. ... ... suck out all the marrow of life.” Thus wrote the American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau in his seminal work, Walden, published in 1854.
A fierce opponent of slavery, a champion of the simple life, a lover of nature and an enemy of the modern, Thoreau has become emblematic of ... I agree with everyone that said Moby Dick and Walden.
You know what would be fascinating? If we had the same thread but the only people who could comment were the people who green-light books for publishing. It would be brilliant to see what books never would have been published if they hadn' ... Yesterday I got the fully annotated edition of Walden by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Lovely book. ... (TBR)
7. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (TBR)
8. Environmental Ethics by Joseph R. DesJardins (Reading)
9. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Reading via DailyLit)
I would strenuously nudge Walden. It's been one of my favorite non-fiction reads since I was in high school. Sorry to be contrary, but I hated 1984 with some vehemence, and therefore de-nudge that one. I'm always happy to recommend Robert B. Parker, but I wouldn't put Double Play high on ... ... without success. Hmmm... I wonder what the magazine's copyright policy is. I would think that the North American classics (Walden,Sand County Almanac,Silent Spring, etc) would easily make up the list, so perhaps there would be few surprises. I'm quite interested in identifying good ... Yes, I've read Things Fall Apart. How about Walden. I've just finished it today. ... Room of Ones Own - Virginia Woolf - Read
4. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
5. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
6. Waldon; or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
7. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
8. A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
9. Cottage Economy - W ... I'm going to finish Walden some time this month. Next on the 1001 list is The Time Machine. I'm looking forward to another Wells. Finding Walden a bit tedious with flashes of utter brilliance. ... half of the book and finding it interesting as I don't know anything about Korean monarchies. Also about halfway through Walden now and sometimes managing to lose myself in the beauty of the words. Has anyone seen the LEC edition of Walden? It would be about 70 years old now since it was published in 1936. I'm thinking that this might be one of the editions you rarely see in any kind of good shape.
I thought that my Easton Press edition of Walden was a reprint but now see that the ... ... Children by Angela Carter which has been dropped from the 2008 version. It is highly amusing. I am also slowly reading Walden and trying not to get too annoyed by a style that I find to be a bit smug and hectoring. ... already own with you, then I suggest (from the 17 books that you and I share in our libraries):
The Awakening
Emma
Walden
I Capture the Castle
Have a wonderful time! ...
28. Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
29. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
30. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
31. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
32. My Antonia by Willa Cather
33. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
34. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
35. Julius Caesar by ... Whoops, forgot one on the above list:
112. The Sun Also Rises
I'm currently reading Walden; or Life in the Woods, but have to admit that it's very slow going, so I'll probably start and finish another one or two before I'm through with that one, as I feel that it lends itself to reading ... I'm just starting Walden; or, Life in the Woods. I got that book for my birthday in February and happily procrastinated away until now.
However, since I've just realised that I've only read one 1001 list book this year so far, I've got some catching up to do, so fingers crossed! ... writing earned a 4.5 rating from me.
#43. One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith. This is the Alaskan version of Walden. Not quite as philosophical, but thought-provoking nonetheless. Based on the journals of Richard Proenneke who built a cabin in a remote part of Alaska and lived ... ... (a very heavy recounting of the Holocaust and subsequent Nazi hunt). After that, I'm planning Moonraker for fun, then Walden and On Civil Disobedience. I've never read those two and figure it's about time to get on it. ... Time - Eric Hoffer
Moonraker - Ian Flemming
Vixen 03 - Clive Cussler
The Murderers Among Us - Simon Wiesenthal
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Not a bad weekend. I should have come away with a lot more, considering the SpiraledStar in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : SpiraledStar's 75 books (Jun 25, 2008, 12:32am) ... so that it encompasses all of 2008. (My other list is from this June to next June). My list now includes:
Anansi Boys
Walden
The Great Gatsby
A Raisin in the Sun
Death of a Salesman
The Caine Mutiny
Pagan Christmas
The Light Fantastic
The Zombie Survival Guide
Apocaly ... 78. Walden, Or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
wildbill, (great name, btw) Thanks for the kind words, though I've been feeling pretty depressed about my list lately. I'm taking classes again for the first time in a few years, and although I'm reading a lot of literature, very ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Walk in Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart
The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Trees
Western Forests
The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson Two words: Walden's Pond. I didn't even have to read the whole book, and I could have trashed the thing afterward.
And the Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass. I finished it because I just kept waiting for it to get good. And it didn't. Walden: or my life in the woods by Henry David Thoreau
Angela's ASHes by Frank McCourt
A Breath of Snow and ASHes by Diana Gabaldon
Fences and Gates (made of wood)
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving I finished The Island of Doctor Moreau last week and am just beginning Walden. I suspect this one is going to take me a long time. Finished - Walden, The Good Earth, and Unions
Closed out my female author catagory; started 8 More Languages in my extra credit section. No, I've not read Abbey. We read Walden because it was one rebellious text that none of us had picked up yet. Plus, we've all been to Walden Pond a short 20 minutes from our house.
Being an extrovert, these introspective books tend to bore me. For non-fiction, give me a good history book ... ... by Ron Currie Jr
Excellent book. The concept and execution is great even if you believe there is no god.
7. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
I am so glad my book club is done with this book. The first half is good but then he gets way too metaphysical for my tastes. And it's ... ... as if they were a pool of clear water, and seeing the story, clear sharp and magnified on the bottom.
Still working on Walden, War and Peace and almost done with Today I wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms Walden is my forever project. Maybe this year...Don Quijote was one of these too until last year, when I managed to surprise myself and read it all the way through.
(I'd like LT to have star or a mark that you could put next to books like this, when you've finally read them, to celebrate the ... ... read them?" This I get from the likes of David Copperfield, Far from the Madding Crowd, 100 Years of Solitude, Walden and Crime and Punishment. 159. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's logic may be patchy, but his words are divine. You can open "Walden" to any page and find a perfect line.
160. Taltos by Steven Brust
The novel jumps back and forth in time as Vlad Taltos, on the cusp of his assassination career, is ... ... Solitude, The Name of the Rose, (even if i knew who did it 100 pages in), Ulysses and Trainspotting.
I still have Walden to finish and War and Peace to start by the end of the year.
-mistress 'rissa
Well, I've only read 8 this year, so I'll list them all in the order I've enjoyed them.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau not quite done but should be done by 12/31--definitely top of my list.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plat ... ... of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Could the last 70 pages of this book drag anymore??
Currently I'm reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau,(how can anyone consider this a environmental text?!?!), The Power of Art by Simon Schama, (a b-day present since I LOVED the series) ... ... and watch every game.
Up next is The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and then onto a group read of Walden.
I just started Walden by Henry David Thoreau; it is one of those books I should have read when I was younger. Thankfully, I am reading it now! Walden Pond by Thoreau I just hated, I had to read it for English and it was like torture on the mind. Any thing Transcendentalist is horrible to read. ... an opinionated customer I once had, when I worked in a video store. For some reason, we were having a conversation about Walden and he was irate--IRATE!!--that Thoreau had acquired this reputation for self-reliance when he was subsisting on pies baked by someone else.) When you get down ... ... read it at all. We share Tao Te Ching. Particularly, the Arthur Waley version I read over and over. Thoreau's Walden I have read over and over. Right now I do not even finish a book Beyond Good and Evil or Richard Rorty's most recent collection of essays, before I start re-re ... ... that I have regretted getting rid of was a completely marked up, beat to shreds copy of the Norton Critical Edition of Walden, or . . . I think I got rid of it in a drunken pique. I realize now that I lost part of my internal history.. Oh well. Live and learn.
Obviously, if I have a ... Not quite limiting it to novels:
Walden, or Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau: This book has, by far, stayed with me the longest.
I have had major enthusiasms for Lord of the Rings, James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Frank Herbert's ... ... no play in them for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
- from Walden ... tangible and fundamental natural cycles than the north, largely because of the agrarian economy. While Thoreau lived on Walden a few hundred yards from his mom's house, where he could enjoy nature from within a safe context, the agrarian southerner's life depended on rain, sunshine, dirt, ... classics...
1984 by george orwell
emma by jane austen
walden by henry david thoreau
odyssey by homer
pnin by vladimir nabokov
politics...
politics by aristotle
utopia by thomas more
utilitarianism by john stuart mill
anthem by ayn rand ... ... it is cooler to be associated with the Thunder God than some hermit. He'll figure it out someday.
Aside from the obvious Walden, I love his essay on Civil Disobedience. It's funny how it is still so appropriate today. 'Nuff said. I'll have to go to my dog-eared copy of Walden and pull out ... ... and that have become part of my essence, like water added to a pool. I re-read most of these from time to time.
Walden I remember soaking this up and commiting sentence after glorious sentence to memory when I first encountered it at about the age of 14. I think we were assigned ... ... didn't appropriate any property, The Qu'ran and didn't pursue any infidels, Republic and didn't persecute any poets, Walden and didn't run off into my shed. Nor should they be banned.
There might be a case where certain books should be challenged. An erroneous chemistry book, maybe. B ... ... to witness most of its predictions coming true. Preteens are very self-aware and seeking their identities. Self Reliance, Walden and other similar works would probably hit your demographic well.
When I was a freshman in high school, I was in the accelerated English class (as was everyone ... ... anyone's toes here, but I found it plodding and dull and finally gave up on it about half-way through.
I tried reading Walden recently and barely got through the first couple of chapters. Now my local PBS station is running a promo where people are talking about To Kill a Mockingbird and ... ... of criticism and analysis that has built up about his work.
As for other books that changed my life, I put Thoreau's Walden at the top of the list; I first read it when I was about 13, and I believe it was the first non-fiction book I became totally engrossed in, absorbed like a sponge, ... ... Stone by J.K. Rowling - 10,162 owners
10% (48th): Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - 1637 owners
100th: Walden by Henry Thoreau - 708 owners Walden by Thoreau ... Flesh, Zen Bones
The Portable Dragon
Inner Chapters of Chuang Tsu
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Walden
Some of my teachers:
Tolstoy
Dalai Lama
Wendell Berry
Shakespeare
Douglas
"In the end, only kindness matters." ... views.
The one single book that changed my way of thinking the most--in the broadest general sense--was Thoreau’s Walden. It changed the way I viewed most everything: nature, human existence, the ills of materialism (in the consumerism sense), even the pursuit of the so-called “Americ ... ... with me, eh? That is a hard one; I assume that in this scenario I am going away for a long time, if not forever.
1. Walden—for sure, though I’d bring my Portable Thoreau which includes Walden and many others.
2. Orwell’s Animal Farm, it’s small and easy to carry, and I ... ... quite cold by Pilgrim at Tinker Creek the first time I read it, and now it's right up there on my favorites shelf with Walden ). But I am even less impressed with Hemingway now than I was in high school. I think it's also worth noting that as an English major in college I ... I am currently on a kick where I am reading a lot of Essays. Right now I am in the middle of Walden and I have planned to read The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond next ... no matter what.
And as for which touchstones work and which don't--it goes by the current title of the work. Which means Walden works, but Walden; or Life in the Woods links to a compendium of three Thoreau books, because the work title for the single volume doesn't contain the subtitle. ... ... if I was being a help or a hindrance at the time, but the day before last I spent the better part of an hour separating out Walden from Walden; and, Civil Disobedience (with a few Walden; and other writings mixed in. It was my first lengthy foray into separating/combining, although I've done ...
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