Far too long winded and judgy for me to keep reading. The lengthy run-on sentences were difficult for me to make sense of, and when I did understand what he was saying, it often came off as incredibly out of touch. The way a single rich elite living in the woods for fun (Thoreau) perceives his options in life is drastically different from that of a poor farmer trying to prevent their large family from starving (his Irish neighbor to whom he is incredibly disrespectful).
I am also not a fan of transcendentalism as a philosophy.