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mousmeAfter finishing Animal, Vegetable, Miracle yesterday, I found myself strangely uninterested in reading fiction as my next book. So I picked up Thoreau's Walden, which I'd never read.
I'm only 13 pages in (started on the metro this morning on the way to work), but so far it's not quite what I expected. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, or perhaps because it's so far removed from the simple, happy, modern and jocular tone of Barbara Kingsolver, but he seems kind of... angry and bitter, I guess. Thus far he's gone on at length about how no one knows how to live, that old people (i.e. anyone over 30) have nothing useful by way of life experience to offer (because their "wisdom" is suspect), and that generally people suck.
I'm only a few pages in, like I said. I am not entirely put out yet, and I'm sure that once I get used to the style it'll get easier. I'm intrigued to see where he's going to go with this. I guess I was just surprised by the tone, which I expected to be, umm, less judgmental. Like I said: perhaps I'm being unduly influenced by the occasionally-apologetic Kingsolver.
We shall see.
I'm only 13 pages in (started on the metro this morning on the way to work), but so far it's not quite what I expected. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, or perhaps because it's so far removed from the simple, happy, modern and jocular tone of Barbara Kingsolver, but he seems kind of... angry and bitter, I guess. Thus far he's gone on at length about how no one knows how to live, that old people (i.e. anyone over 30) have nothing useful by way of life experience to offer (because their "wisdom" is suspect), and that generally people suck.
I'm only a few pages in, like I said. I am not entirely put out yet, and I'm sure that once I get used to the style it'll get easier. I'm intrigued to see where he's going to go with this. I guess I was just surprised by the tone, which I expected to be, umm, less judgmental. Like I said: perhaps I'm being unduly influenced by the occasionally-apologetic Kingsolver.
We shall see.
