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Book Reviews of Walden

Walden
Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 243515
Publication Date: 1960
Rating:
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4.5 stars, based on 2 ratings

8 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

buzzby avatar reviewed Walden on + 6062 more book reviews
I got a little bogged down with all the details of fashioning things for his living, I never did figure out how he jury-rigged a remote for his TV. Anyway, it's amazing how far we as a society has gotten away from his attitudes of independence, we just seem to get busier and busier.
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Amazing audiobook.
Alison avatar reviewed Walden on + 551 more book reviews
Thoreau's classic memoir of his time at Walden Pond, read by poet Archibald MacLeish - a marvelous recording of a timeless and thought-provoking essay.
jdauntless avatar reviewed Walden on + 112 more book reviews
The classic well done.
Destructa avatar reviewed Walden on + 78 more book reviews
Please note: this is a Monarch Notes guide to Thoreau's Walden (a Cliffs Notes-type book).
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This is an ABRIDGED version. Not worth the purchase.
dloris87 avatar reviewed Walden on + 7 more book reviews
Why would you need a sleeping pill when you could listen to this? I was excited to get this audio several years ago and was greatly disappointed. I find it incredibly ironic that Thoreau wrote a book about simplistic living that drones on and on. I think the audio reader was even bored by this. Everything in this book could have been said in 30 pages, now that would have been simplistic living. What a huge disappointment.
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Not done with it yet. Good so far.