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| Original Title: | Walden Two |
| ISBN: | 0872207781 (ISBN13: 9780872207783) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Augustine Castle, Steve Jamnick, Mary Grove, Barbara Macklin, T.E. Frazier |
B.F. Skinner
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.49 | 5768 Users | 429 Reviews
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| Title | : | Walden Two |
| Author | : | B.F. Skinner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | July 15th 2005 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (first published 1948) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Psychology. Philosophy. Classics. Science Fiction. Utopia. Literature |
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I have to say that I find it funny how often the user reviews call Walden Two "boring." I get as bored reading a philosophical treatise as the next person, but Walden Two is actually easy and engaging to read. It's even funny in the little ways the narrator mocks the hero Fraser as well as the daft intellectual Castle. Skinner has this great way of describing when conversation is awkward, or when people misunderstand each other in little ways, or when a person's ego is showing. I mean, ok, it's not exactly a rollicking romp of a book - it's a conversational back -and-forth that celebrates living in a way that uses pragmatic and scientifically-grounded solutions to the problems of living in a society instead of adhering to a set of principles that are unlikely to result in a life that produces maximum happiness and satisfaction. Yes, Skinner's book advocates for behaviorist approaches to fixing society's problems, and it's got some air crib usage in it, if that's what you signed up for. I recommend it.And, you know, if you were bored reading it, it's too bad you don't live in Walden Two, where you could just say, "This is boring to me," and everyone would be totally cool with that.
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Ratings: 3.49 From 5768 Users | 429 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Walden Two
Walden Two by B.F. Skinner is one of those books that you, at the same time, love and hate. Personally, I thought that the idea was a ridiculously interesting concept in and of itself, and Skinner made a valiant attempt to implement it in a fictional novel, but ended up with a pile of literary shit powdered with intellectual diamond dust. Im sure that both parts of my analogy can easily be explained; Skinner is a Psychologist and not a creative writer. I have to say, I think I liked the book butboring, sexist and dated
B. F. Skinner was a lot of things, but a skilled novelist was not one of them. One star for some excellent quotes about religion. One star for an excellent explanation of the science of human behaviour. One star because Skinner is my BRO.
One time, I threw this book out a window. That should probably tell you how much I detest it. It was required reading for a class, and I fully acknowledge that this "review" is basically just venting the resentment and bafflement that still lingers.Part of my ire is that Walden Two is presented as a novel (albeit blandly written with no care for depth of characters, emotions, or plot), and man, do I as a reader detest poorly-written fiction that's ultimately trying to argue something.
As a novel, this book deserves less than a one-star rating. There, I said it, and I think even B.F. Skinner would agree with me if we both lived in Walden Two.Now let me tell you first why it's an awful novel. Characters are caricatures, awkward dialogue and descriptions, no plot, literally, nothing happens in this novel. It's just a long dialogue without any kind of consequences. So if recently you've only read books that grab you and never let you go, a bestseller or a page-turner, think again
I don't really remember too much of this book. I remember that I liked it ok, but not anywhere near as much as I liked Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged'.I was given both of these books to read by my older sister. Two opposing philosophies, so to speak.
B. F. Skinner? More like B.F. Skin me alive because this thinly veiled "novel" is a rambling waste of time. By the end I decided I would have rather read anthem by ayn Rand six times over instead, and that is by no means a compliment.
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