Awesome to see my favourite author here on Hacker News. May I also humbly recommend: * Civil Disobedience (1849) - the classic referred to by Gandhi and MLK h

Awesome to see my favourite author here on Hacker News. May I also humbly recommend: * Civil Disobedience (1849) - the classic referred to by Gandhi and MLK http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html * A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) - Thoreau was one of the very, very few to defend Brown attempt to launch a slave rebellion http://thoreau.eserver.org/plea.html http://thoreau.eserver.org/plea.html * Walden (1854) - of course - read the first chapter at least ("Economy") for a timeless analysis of what is necessary in life http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html