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1. Sentences that last multiple pages

1 Nothing worthwhile in the last chapter. should have skipped it

2. Talks about being vegetarian and how it is better to not eat animals as it’s too much work for the pay off and it’s morally lower. Believes that as man evolves he will stop eating animals. However, he can’t stop fishing and even says that he thinks less of himself for it

5 surprising amount of evil dead like gore

1 Last chapter is first about unique trees and then a thunderstorm finds him at a neighbors house. he explans tha the neighbor is poor and works too hard because he lives too lavishly and if he was happy with less he could work easier

4. Not as good, starting to slow down some

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talksabout how much he hates gossip and newspapers but then says he goes to the village daily to hear the gossip and how refreshing it is

1. didn't get anything from last chapter

4 Appreciate the insights into an author's mind and inner workings

1. what?! Needed to be further apart based on how heavy and deep the topic?

Chapter 5 was about solitude, a topic I think about a lot. It was surprisingly shallow. A couple of times it seemed like he was going to make a good point, but stopped short. Also, he made it seem like he was very isolated, but he was very close to Concorde and frequently had people over

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1 didn't like chapter 4 sounds. seemed pointless and hard to follow. mainly taked about train and bird sounds

5. Still surprised at how fast it moves ad how it seems to start in the thick of everything

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1. Looks down on easy reading that doesn’t challenge intellectually. Says that no one in Concord reads anything good, meaning classic English literature

1. Says that he has had Iliad sitting on his bedstand table because he doesn’t have time to read and then goes on at length about the importance of reading classics with arcane language and fully understanding them

2. Even someone deciding to write a book like this shows their arrogance and how full of themselves they are. Goes on and on about minute details and with occasional philosophy thrown in which are the best parts

2. Goes into minute detail about what he was spending money on. Especially tiresome without knowing conversion to modern rates

2. Has some good ideas and quotes but then states that we are the “morally and intellectually” superior to “Arabs”

2. Very arrogant and full of himself

Starting. Overly verbose language that is seemingly problematic. Talks about slavery and how he’s never learned anything from people older than him

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3. Slow moving. Little happens in a lot of words

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3. Has good parts, but also parts that could have been completely removed or at least shortened - working in the bat, Wolf, Gardener’s plantation for kids