high-minded scrupulous ascetic minutely educated snidely humorous unexpectedly readable and really quite sharp, thoreau is at once compellingly lyrical and ploddingly verbose.
it's amazing how you can imagine glimmerings of almost every recently fashionable organic mother-earth back-to-basics anti-big-business grow-your-own-vegetables trend in his book. perhaps that is why he comes across as being just the tiniest bit self righteous.
i'm not sure i can finish the book. there is only so much activism a modern girl who needs all her creature comforts can handle.
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