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I’m attracted in many ways to the simple, quiet, nature-filled life that Thoreau describes himself living in this book. He paints the setting with so much detail that I could easily picture myself there when I really tuned into the writing. That said, it was hard to do—the sheer amount of description, much of it very mundane, bogged me down often. Especially in the second half of the book, when the philosophical thoughts fizzled out a bit and the number of very specific run-on details grew.