Walden or, Life in the Woods

I choose my reads carefully and DNFing is rare, but I couldn't get through this and had to put it down.

I was expecting a profound story about how to survive off the grid with no electricity or obvious mod cons, a sort of Don Juan psychedelic survival experience on peyote in the Mexican desert if you like, but I couldn't understand a word of it!

I have battled through Ulysses, Moby Dick, Don Quixote, the four gospels (not the entire Bible), multiple Shakespeare plays, been bored out of my wits, had my eyelids willingly clamped open, puked through nervous exhaustion, urinated a giant kidney stone, survived while plowing through tiresome tomes, and yawned to the point of going mad in the name of reading the very 'best' literature, but I couldn't trawl through this.

Civil Disobedience isn't half so bad by comparison because it's only 33 pages.

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