I may have to renounce my English Lit minor from college, but Walden is dreck. Just because it is loved and shoved by the back-to-nature hippies and college profs does not make it good reading.
Moby Dick is just unreadable. The same goes for just about anything from Hawthorne.
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Some classics, aren't.
Call me Izzy...
When my daughter was assigned it in High School she told me that Thoreau was a crackpot, who needed a job.
I think the girl turned out all right.
Don't even get me started on John Hershey's "Hiroshima". It's called war for a reason!
I've met WWII vets who thought the A-bombings might have been a little excessive.
But I've never met one who thought it shouldn't have been dropped and that the Japs didn't deserve every bit of what they got.
And yes, I said "Japs". Sue me.
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