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Title: Literary Brussels sprouts
Review: This book is good for you, but it won't go down easy. Thoreau pales in comparison to European philosophers, and what he does have to say comes mainly in the concluding chapter, after two-hundred pages of self-consciously dense dawdling. I give it five stars in the same vein that Lawrence of Arabia is considered a classic: yes, it's undeniably a work of great effort and intelligence, but one viewing is enough. Civil Disobedience, considered a seminal political tract, struck me as anarchism-lite, written in a fit of pique. A good book to have read, but once you put it down, odds are you won't pick it up again.
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