How to comprehend hard books like Walden?

Thegust
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:19:29 +0000

For me at least,Walden is a very,very complicated book.Not only for the style,neither only for the vocabulary ,but mainly for the subject.The whole idea of the book is complicated ,the very theme it deals with is a deep and hard one.
Others have said,that Bronte sisters or Frankenstein are heavy stuff.I, for instance, find Walden far harder than these , the only difficulty in those are related to the vocabulary apart from that those books are kinda easy to get,but Walden is surely different.
What happened to me is much like what happened to the guy who said he had read the introduction and found that quite interesting, but when he came to the work itself he could barely understand 40 % of what was being said.I don´t know what to do,at the very same time i feel somehow Walden reading is going to change my life,for it deals with something that has always interested me deeply whareas when i read it i get the horrible sensation im not getting anything out of it, or if i am, im not getting it all,what an awful frustration! lol
But somehow,Henry David Thoreau is such an incredible,exquisite writer that when i read him,his style alone captivates me ,marvels me .The book is beautifully written,apart from it´s elaborate,sophisticated philosofical concept ,it is indeed a wonderful piece of writing.