How to comprehend hard books like Walden?

Nucleus
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:02:01 +0000

Quaere, thanks a lot for your breakdown! Hopefully I’ll be able to do that myself with the book.

I agree the sparknotes is a good resource (I used it for Julius Caesar lol), but if you want to get better at finding the theme and understand the author you should try to interpret the book yourself first right? I used to just read Sparknotes and their summaries (which is bad). I don’t know how I should tackle these books. Should I read it first myself, write about it, and then reread it again or just use Sparknotes to see what they say?