Recommend me a thoreau book

[Greenbunny]

i have a couple of his books. i started readign the one about him living in that house by himself, but found it quite hard/boring to get through. i feel like i'm missing something here. but anyway, what would you guys recommend as the best one to read? i'll try to start again with that.

[Daniel A. C.]

I love Walden, but I can see how someone might find it boring who was not acquainted to the times Thoreau lived in, or the concerns he was engaged in.

You might want to read through some of his essays, "Civil Disobedience" being the most famous, "Walking" being another one of my favorites.

You might also want to read other authors of his time and place as well - Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a neighbor of Thoreau's, wrote a huge number of great essays. You might also want to look into Melville or Whitman, other writers of the same period.

[aquagirl13]

Walden is a good book to start with but if you want to read a really good book that is environmental try reading Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. That one is a lot like Walden but is an easier read and I think it is more interesting.

[manuke01]

I realize this may be too late for the original poster, but for others there is a "retelling" of the first two chapters of "Walden" that makes accessing the original a little easier. The publisher is Japan & Stuff Press.