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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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I love this book, but it frustrates me too. Maybe it's because Dillard was so young when she wrote it. But it doesn't deserve to be compared to Walden. Thoreau is arrogant and has a prescription for every one of society's problems. Dillard asks hard questions and agonizes over the answers. It's never an open and shut case for her. I'll read her books again and again, but I might be done with Thoreau.
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March 3, 2009
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Finished Reading
March 4, 2009
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March 4, 2009
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Jul 17, 2012 11:34PM
I think I agree, Andy..Thoreau was an ass who lived off others the better part of his life, some of his work is clearly insightful but I have trouble taking him seriously as an authority on anything at all...I am also done with him.
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Though it took me a while to get thru the start of Thoreau's work there are parts of it Dillard has made me want to go back and read….I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek over and over…it is different every time I read it as it interlays into my life experiences different each time. It helps to have been a science teacher for 25 years…our paths do cross…
I'll read thoreau again and again...i'm done with dillard! ...just kidding... but seriously.
How can you even compare the two? They are separated by almost 120yrs? Writing styles, society, and thoughts on naturalism have changed dramatically between Thoreau and Dillard's time. That's like saying you prefer J.K. Rowling to Jane Austen. It might be true, but should the two really ever be compared?
