What do you think of Walden and Thoreau? Also, /out/ related

>>724771
Thoreau's writing was boring and I couldn't finish the book. I liked the concept but he is no Dick Proenneke by any means. The best /out/ book is the one you write.

>>724771
I prefer reading poetry while /out/

>>724806
I also tried reading Walden and never finished it. I preferred his Merrimack River story. I want to go back and finish it though

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>>724806
>The best /out/ book is the one you write.
I agreed with you until this faggatory statement

I'm currently reading it. Some passages motivate to reconsider life choices, others just describe the landscape. It's a mix of essays and a diary, but I like that, the abscence of drama. I guess other books of american transcendentialism are also worth a look.

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>spoiled pretentious rich brat living in rich friend's cabin a half mile outside of town receiving deliveries of groceries pretending to be getting back to nature and claiming to have naturalist epiphanies

so pretty ahead of it's time

John Krauker books are good

Into the Wild
Into thin air

>>724965
>John Krauker books are artistic works of fiction
ftfy

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>Walden
>What I expected

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>Walden
>What I got

>>724819
Ralph Waldo Emerson is good stuff.

Also I'm one of those who never finished Walden, but I only think that is because I was to imature at that point to get into it.

>>724894
This is some reckless teenage faggotry right here.

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C'mon guize stop waldening, mr. Evola have something great for you:
ttp://www.cakravartin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Julius-Evola-Meditation-on-the-Peaks-Mountain-Climbing-as-Metaphor-for-the-Spiritual-Quest.pdf

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Walden is ok. No more, no less.
Quite overrated.

>>724806

agreed. I've read The Lord of the Rings 4 times, but walden had me bored out of my god damn mind.

>>724975
>>724977

LOL! pretty spot on.

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>>724986
no, thinking he's profound is reckless teenage faggotry.

but i bet you think catcher in the rye is genius, too, don't you?

>>724996
Many thanks anon, this will be a great read.

>>724977
*ding*

Thoreau was the Jew of the Woods.

I suspect he moved there more to practice miserliness in solitude than to live /out/. About 25% of the way through his recounting how to save an extra square inch of wool when having a pair of pants made, or how to repair a porch with the fewest possible nails, I gave up and threw the book away.

Leaves of Grass. That is all

>>725258
>gay poets

>>724771
Thoreau didn't really like wilderness. He liked overgrown parks. When he went to the Maine north woods he wrote that he was deeply disturbed by the landscape. I still love the guy but Emerson was better.

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>>724818
Who ever smelt it, dealt it

>>725021
I sense butthurt, however, I don't think its profound just a decent observation of society that is be valid today also, at least the part I read.

Catcher in the Rye is okayish but far away from genious.

Why so angsty?

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I also couldn't get into Walden and did not finish it.

What's something similar but readable and modern?

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>>725047
you're welcome.
Traditionalist scouts are best sc/out/s !

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walden is shit.

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he was right, and you know it

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>>726769 >>724996
Well, we went from walden to
- Industrial Society and its future (Kaczynski)
- Meditations on the Peaks (Evola)
Good!
Let's continue on this path

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>>726769
Ted is based, I might send him a letter in Prison when I'm in the mood for it.

>>724771
Walden was nothing more than literary masturbation. Don't get me wrong, I agree with a lot of Thoreau's philosophies, but if I want philosophy I'll read the dhamapada or the new testament, not the notes of a loner who talked to himself because no else would listen.

>>724771
Yeah Thoreau was kind of a pretentious prick, but you have to admit that his writing was significant for the time.

>>724771
Read Aldo Leopld's Sand County Almanac if you haven't already, its gold m8.

[spoiler]pepe[/spoiler]

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>>727095
Very interesting!

>>727093
No. The book became successful with Hipsters.. Enough said.
Again, Walden is "ok", but the walden-hype is absolutely ridicoulous.

I like how people always thinks that Thoreau was like out in the fucking boonies away from everyone. There was and still is a train that runs right by Walden Pond that makes a shit ton of noise and trains were only noisier back in the day. With a regular schedule to follow he must have heard that train go back and forth 4-5+ times a day. These days a train runs by Walden Pond every 40~ minutes or so in the middle of the day.

>>727594
This.
Also: Walden is shit.

>>724996
This book is Amazing. Thanks anon..
More scouts need to read this

So in Katahdin he wrote about how they used these canoe-like things to go up the mountain.

Can anyone explain to me why you would want to pole yourself up a river to ascend a mountain?

Seems like a lot of work to me.

>>728328
Someone help this guy

>>728328
it was called a batteaux if that makes a difference

Read about 50% of the thread, lots of arguing so I didn't bother, but

>endurance
>at the mountains of madness
>where the red fern grows
>blood meridian
>hatchet + sequels

Should keep you busy for a bit. What I'm most interested in is books that you can read, enjoy the story, and learn a little more about going /out/, I've been thinking of buying Nessmuk's book on kayaking but I'm wary of running into another dry book where the author focuses on exactly how many socks he packed and the sound a bird makes, rather than practical skills to practice.

>>728328
someone help me

>>732026
>help me
So the current and gravity doesn't take you the other direction.

>>726821
Can you provide source? Being europoor I can't afford hard copy, cause of enormous shipping costs from Murica.

>>724771
To be honest, I actually enjoyed Walden more than I had expected to.
Best /out/ book is "My Side of the Mountain"

>>724771
I stopped reading very early into it where he trivialized the lifestyle of farmers. At that point I knew it must celebrate a hippy do nothing mode of getting back to nature that I cannot endorse.

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>>724771
That shit was cash, read it whenever life gets me down.

tldr: "[Thoreau] went to the woods because [he] wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if [he] could not learn what it had to teach"

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>>724806
>>724816
>>725407
>>726756
The amount of people in this thread who are too stupid to even read this book surprises me. But it really shouldn't...

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I just ordered this on Amazon, is it as legit as I've heard it is, or did I just fall for a meme book

>>733736
can you explain this picture?
is the water supposed to heat the compost to accelerate decomposition or is the heat released by decomposition supposed to warm the water?

>>733800
Think of it like a cable TV survival show, contains some useful information but is mostly for commercial consumption.

This, and about a half dozen other "SAS survival manuals", were written by former SAS members but they are not actually the book the SAS uses.

>>733667
>>>724771
>I stopped reading very early into it where he trivialized the lifestyle of farmers. At that point I knew it must celebrate a hippy do nothing mode of getting back to nature that I cannot endorse.

This

>>735066
what is a better survival guide?