This question is from another site, and is a good one: How much and what kind of reading do most people consider enough? How much and what kind would Thoreau think is enough, and why? Give examples. Something else to consider involves Thoreau's advice found in this chapter on how to approach reading, something a Duke University Reading Guide mentions. It is an approach that is necessary for understanding and enjoying his writing: "To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written" (para. 3 89-90). Here are a couple others you might want to address Friday: What does the image of the veil mean? How can books help us "scale h...
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