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“Thoreau's writing seems to become better with age - the age of the reader. For people who enjoy nature and it's solitude, Walden truly teaches valuable lessons about simplicity and focusing on important things in life. It challenges hard questions to be asked and answered - what is important to me? what do I do that is wasteful and unimportant or trivial? do my possessions better my life or take away from it's value? Thoreau could be considered a pioneer of Life Coaching - a career he would assuredly think ridiculous. ”
Dave B wrote this review Monday, November 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“My all time favorite book. ”
Erika B wrote this review Wednesday, October 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Thoreau seems to me to have a very good grasp on the true nature of life and as a Buddhist a great deal of his thoughts sound very familiar. Very good reading. In Walden, Thoreau shows us with little (but always very colorful and definitive) personal opinion, that much of what we perceive in the modern world as necessity is usually frivolous luxury that distracts us from attaining a higher purpose and meaning out of our lives. Just by living simply he manages to get more out of life in two years then most get out of ten. Truly food for thought. ”
Patrick M wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“"Live deliberately!"
NaturalReader wrote this review Friday, July 31 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
~Thoreau”
“Emerson is less preachy. Thoreau comes off as a whiney teenager writing after his first sit-in.”
Ryan L wrote this review Thursday, May 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“To live deliberately...”
Ellis I. Lee wrote this review Sunday, January 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I actually read from the "Other Writings" part of the title, not Walden. The edition had a lengthy excerpt from the much longer A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, which I was interested in. I enjoyed the work, although the reading moves as slowly as the wide, mostly calm rivers Thoreau travels down with his brother. Unlike many river narratives that center on people encountered during the trip as much as on nature, A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers is focused almost exclusively on Thoreau's impressions of nature--the water, the plants along the banks--and more philosophical meditations occasioned by what he sees. The meditations became tedious after awhile, and I assume that much of what was cut from this excerpt is in this same vein.”
Johnny Waco wrote this review Sunday, January 13 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Beautiful account of Thoreau's quest for the simple life. Interesting that he fails to mention that he went home on the weekends and had someone bring him his meals.”
Lady Dixie wrote this review Tuesday, July 17 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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