Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include spoilers!
As I’ll be in Concord, Mass. in just a few days to visit the very place (!), I am reading Walden this week. It shouldn’t have taken me this long! There is no shortage of quotable moments in this American classic, many of which you would recognize even if you never knew their provenance; but I chose one I thought especially clever, and a little humorous as well:
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Here, here, Mr. Thoreau. One of many gems.
For any Walden fans out there (like my friend I got to visit with this past weekend), I have a recommendation for further reading: I really enjoyed Edward Abbey’s short piece entitled “Down the River with Henry Thoreau.” I read it in the Abbey collection, Down the River, but you can also read it online here.
And what are YOU reading?
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Enjoy your trip
Thanks!
I have never read this book…thanks for the teaser.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2012/10/teaser-tuesday-10162012.html
Very true! Interesting teaser! Here is my TT post.
I still haven’t read Thoreau and seem to have so many friends on opposite side of the fence about him–love and hate. Love that you actually gave a little bit of his actual language. May push me to give him a go.
Yes! That’s what’s great about these teasers. For the record, my early impression is… he is one of a handful of forefathers of an area of thinking and writing that I greatly respect, so I nod to him respectfully. But he’s not the easiest read. And of course, having strong opinions, he’ll turn some folks off. I think I am going to end up respecting but not loving Thoreau, myself. That Abbey piece I linked to is more my speed.