/lit/ - Literature

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Growth of the Soil
One Man's Wilderness

Into the Wild
To Build a Fire
Moby Dick

>>12606218
>into the wild

Literal shit tier 'find yourself' trash

Sea wolf- Jack London.

>>12606193
>I saw a fox today :)
how tf did this shit ever get so hyped up it was published in the mid 1800s ffs I'd almost get it if it was published even in the 1900s but wtf
>>12606218
>>12606227
Into the Wild is even worse than Walden.

>>12606245
I haven't read walden but wasn't it just an experiment in seclusion from society rather than an attempt to survive the elements?

>>12606253
He literally just stayed in a cabin by a lake.

>>12606259
Yes but if his attempt was to draw philosophical conclusions from secluding oneself from the modern world would it have made a difference if he tried to survive in the middle of nowhere rather than the cabin by the lake?

>>12606281
Don't try and reason with them.
Nearly everyone that attacks walden on /lit/ attacks it for the exact same regurgitated reason.
Most of these people haven't gone innawoods since they went on a camping trip with their grade 5 class.
It's just like middle-class white people attacking drake for not being "real" enough and not being "hood" despite being limp-wristed faggots that walk across the street when they see a black guy approaching.

>>12606281
>>12606288
mf it was the 1800s "the modern world"

And no, nobody taught me to hate Walden. It was hyped af, I felt for the hype, and I was disappointed af.

>>12606294
Wasn't america in the middle of industralization and urbanization back then? I think it would be fair to call that time "modern" and his retreat from the world "seclusion from the modern world". Just like the romantics in europe were longing for nature in a time of rapid industrial change couldn't thoreau's experiment have been a similar longing to seclude himself from modernity? (Again, I haven't read the book, feel free to prove me wrong)

>>12606214
>Growth of the Soil
Everyone should read this book

>>12606288
>drake
>defending drake
leave

Elder-God tier

>>12606288
>>12606294
Lol you are both such retards. Learn how to read a book.

>>12606193
He actually spent two years living innawoods, but the book is somewhat allegorical, rather than a literal account of his time innawoods.
It's a great book, but it was never intended as a guide on how to survive in the wilderness.

>>12606253
That's right. People either haven't read it or are too dumb to understand.

Thoreau is making a mental retreat from society in order to re-anchor his life towards things that actually matter to him. He wants to stop caring about the petty things that society focuses on.

>>12606468
What if they aren't european or even dare I say a shitskin?

>>12606253
Yes, that's exactly right.
He muses on all kinds of topics; society, government, spirituality, materialism etc.
He does talk about what he does to get food, heat, shelter etc, but it's by no means a technical guide.

>>12606193
>go East, young man, go East
and read The zen teaching of bodhidharma